Corner mistake

mghollis38 wrote

on Jan 26, 2009 12:43 PM

I made a mistake on a corner.

I am working on an afghan. It's pretty much a granny square pattern. The sides are 3 triple crochets, 1 chain, repeat. The corner pattern goes 3 triple crochets, 3 chains, 3 triple crochets.

The mistake I made on this corner was 3 triples, one chain, 3 triples (into the previous corners 3 chains), on chain, 3 triples. Now I've gone all the way around and just discovered this mistake. If I were to take out my stitches to fix this, I would be taking out probably 3 hours of work. (I have carpal tunnel syndrome, so I don't work very fast.)

Is there an "easy" fix, or is there an alteration I can make? How do I fix this?

Melinda

PaulineL wrote

on Jan 26, 2009 2:38 PM

Best, of course, is to rip it.

If the yarn is wool, you might be able to stretch the corner chain when you block it, but the hole will still be smallish.

An outrageous fix would be to cut the corner chain, save the next row of stitches on a piece of contrasting yarn, a knitting needle, or something, rip back, and forward, a stitch or two, attach a new piece of yarn, rework the corner stitches with 3 chains, and weave all those ends in. You'l need to rip back a stitch or two to have enough of a tail to weave in. Oh, before you rework the corner stitches, thread the yarn thru the base of the next row stitches so you can pull the ch-3 thru them. It sounds like 3 hours of work this way, too.

Or, make some crochet flowers and hide the mistake under them. Add a few more flowers and it becomes a decorative feature.

Another - make the same "mistake" every other row for at least three times, and it becomes a new pattern. Add some popcorn and cluster stitches for texture.

mghollis38 wrote

on Jan 26, 2009 3:45 PM

Wah.... I was hoping for "easy." Now it looks like "easy" is to undo all my hard work. :(