I am not sure what I was thinking when i decided to start knitting the coda sweater. It was an advanced pattern with very interesting but minimalistic designs. I was curious how i would knit a horizontal cable maybe?
Anyways, it was literally the most difficult sweater I’ve ever made!!! I even had to run some simulations on paper in order to make sure I understood the pattern correctly. I had to majorly frog some parts twice, and it took me about 1.5 years to finish.
I was so proud when i finished it – it was really quite a challenging pattern with beautiful details. But guess what, something looked off when I put it on… some parts of the simpler stockinette stitches looked different from each other…. After some queries on instagram, two fellow knitters helped me figure out what went wrong. I had been purling wrong ALL THESE TIME!!!!! I could not believe that i tackled an advanced pattern when I was purling wrong! For those two don’t knit, all knitting consist of is two motions – knit and purl. And Ive been doing one out of two wrong the entire time. And the reason I could see it very obviously on this sweater is because part of it is knit in round, which means you are making stockinette stitches by only knitting, and part of it is knit in flat, which means you are making stockinette stitches with a purl and a knit. So I could see my stitches twisted in the flat parts…
I could not believe that Ive been doing it wrong the whole time, and went back and looked at a few of my other creations. Lo and behold, those that had stockinette stitches done in flat looked different if you look closely. I just never noticed.
I swore off knitting for a few days. But I am back on another project 😂 It was hard to adjust my purl to loop from the top to the bottom so i had to frog my project a few times, but looks like the muscle memory is finally getting corrected.
Anyways, thanks for listening to me rant about this! The sweater itself is made from wool, so its a little warm to wear around these days, probably need to wait for winter! But I did wear it without undercloth for the photo and the itch was not too bad!
JuebeJue 
I think it’s a beauty of a sweater, awesome job!!
thank you Diana!!
It looks AMAZING!! You should be very proud of this project
aww thanks for the encouragement!!
Look into combination knitting. It’s an “Eastern” style of purling where you make the purls as you had been doing, but when knitting flat, you just knit into the back of the stitch not the front. When knitting I was taught this way and got really confused when reading I took up knitting as an adult. Just google combination or combined knitting. No need to change your purls!!
now i want to check the knitting book i used to learn knitting and how that taught me. someone else mentioned purling through the back too, i will have to try it!
STUNNING sweater! Sorry to hear about your purling… but I looked up Touran’s point, and it seems more ergonomic… good luck with the frogged ones!
oh i didnt htink about the ergonomic side… good to know!
Never seen anything like that pop-out thing before. Looks really cool!