Please someone, give me some advice!
I crocheted the steeks in the monstrosity and left it to marinate for a few days...I pulled it out, looked it over, cut a steek, seamed the shoulder, sewed in a sleeve, sewed down the facing, cut the second steek, started to seam up the shoulder when...wait...what's that? Why isn't the front and back lining up right? What's going on here?
Sweater laid out, inspected from all sides...what can be wrong? The body was knit by my client, maybe she did the neck decreases wrong?
NO! Holy Mother of #$%@#$ NO! I crocheted (and subsequently cut) the steeks in the wrong place...off my 5 stitches on both sides! What to do? The sweater has a huge center motif that is, uh, not in the center! I could redo the shoulders so that decreases work out but the pattern won't be centered!
What do I do?
Besides lay down in a dark room?
I beseach the knitting and steeking gods
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I don't have any advice but I just wanted to tell you I am so sorry. That is awful.
Oh no! I'd go lay down in a dark room...
OK, this could work: if I understand correctly, you are off by 5 stitches on both sides. You will need to create a wider underarm opening and re-cut to make the openings balanced in relation to the center motif. Let's say that right now you've got 80 stitches one side of the motif center and 75 on the other side. Make additional cuts so that you have 75 on EACH side (balance the back the same way). This will leave a smaller (by 5 stitches) front and back yoke, but that should be OK (I don't know what gauge you are working in). This means your sleeve will be wider (are you knitting the sleeve down from the shoulder? No problem. If you've already knit the sleeve, you'll have to widen it to accommodate the extra armhole dimension.) Does this make sense to you? In other words, you are turning a straightforward slit opening to a triangular opening--perfectly acceptable!
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