Who Knew That A Zipper Was So Much Work?

This is the current status of my first Ribby Cardi:


That seems like a lot more than just a simple zipper change, doesn't it? Well, after some debate, I realized that I wanted to fix it right.

There's multiple problems, and I have a 2 problem tolerance. This has/had three. Somehow I messed up the armhole decreases so there was a fold of fabric across the back of the neck. Of course there was that whole shrinking incident (which is why the zipper needed to be removed and reinstalled). As I was removing the zipper, I realized that one side of the front was longer than the other. Any one of these issues I could ignore (except the zipper. That had to be removed and resewn).

So I took it apart. Admittedly, this was not as easy as I had thought. Damn, I'm good at weaving in ends (and I did accidentally break a yarn on the back section that I'll have to frog down to to fix). However, this will let me lengthen the body, probably about 4" or so, but maybe only 2" on the sleeve. Get the raglan shaping issue fixed, plus make sure the fronts are the same length (making zipper installation oh so much easier!)

This is a shared sweater here. Matt wore it as much as I did. The fabric is comfy and easy care (just don't wash it in hot water, or it will shrink). It's worth taking the time to fix it. However, I always like to put time between frogging and fixing (or for that matter, problem then frogging... seems less painful if you don't remember how much time it took to knit it before you need to rip back). So I'm not in a rush to get it back on the needles again. I still need to rip all the raglan sleeve shaping back (on both the body and the sleeves). I'll do those one at a time as I work on it.

Since that much deconstruction is so depressing... maybe I'll cast on a new project?