En redningsmission / A rescue mission

Nogle gange kan det godt betale sig at være en meget, meget nørdet faster. Juleaftensdag havde jeg en gigantisk succes-oplevelse! Min niece er ved at strikke en trøje oppefra-ned, men efter at have taget ud til ærmerne, havde hun fortsat alt for langt inden ærmemaskerne blev taget fra. Derefter havde hun strikket kroppen. Resultat? Ærmegabene så virkelig store og mærkelige ud, og trøjen var alt for lang. Desværre var der ikke nogen vej udenom at trevle et eller andet op, og da I jo nok kender følelsen af at man nærmest bløder, når man trevler en dejlig bluse op, så tilbød jeg at gøre det.

Sometimes, it really pays off being a super-nerdy aunt! On the 24th of December, I had a giant success. My niece is knitting a cardigan top-down, but after increasing the stitches for the sleeves, she had continued far too long before removing the sleeve-stitches for later. Then knitted the lower part. Result? The sleeve-openings looked really big and weird, and the cardigan was far too long.  Unfortunately, there was no way avoiding some unraveling, and since I guess all of you know the feeling of almost bleeding when unraveling a really nice project, I offered to do it for her.

Vi var enige om, at det mindst forfærdelige ville være at samle masker op på det nederste stykke og så strikke det øverste. Så jeg klippede en tråd, fjernede en række (det tager lang tid!), samlede de nederste masker op og begyndte at trevle op. Undervejs gik det op for mig, at man måske kunne sy de to stykker sammen igen med maskesting, når de passede i længden?
Det var jo et forsøg værd, og det lykkedes fint!

We agreed that the least horrible thing would be to pick up the stitches on the bottom piece and then re-knit the top part. So I cut a thread, removed a row (it takes some time!), picked up the bottom part stitches and started unraveling. While doing it, I realized that it might be possible to sew the 2 pieces together using kitchener-stitch when the length was fine?
It was worth a try, and it went really nicely!

Jeg var glad. Men min niece var endnu mere glad. Trøjen passede nu i længden, og hun gik i gang med ærmerne. Mon ikke den snart bliver færdig?

I was happy. But my niece was even more happy. The cardigan fit length-wise, and she started the sleeves. I think it may be done very soon?