Twilleys, we have a problem

Can you see it? The top of the back is longer than the top of the front (I still have to put the eyelets on the side, but it's still one pattern repeat short). I followed the pattern as written, but I didn't notice right away because it has a unique construction and wasn't obvious at the outset. The piece is knit from the center out. So you do the back top first and knit to back, then you pick up from the cast on edge and knit down for the diamonds. The front is the same except that you start with three stitches and build each cup (for lack of a better word) before casting on stitches for the sides. So I didn't know there was a problem until I finished the upper front.

There is an error in the pattern somewhere. I know the two places where the error could be, but which one exactly depends on the intentions of the designer. For the three largest sizes you increase 4 times for the front and 5 times for the back--that's why it's longer. So which one is right? It's a British pattern so it assumes a great deal of knowledge on the part of the knitter and there are no schematics. I wrote to Twilleys since I can't find any errata on the web and hopefully they'll help me out. If not, I think I will rip back the back and leave out one of the pattern repeats. It also means I have to rip out the bottom of the back and lengthen it. I just want to make sure that the cami is big enough and covers me in all the right places.

Comments

[Laurie]

There must be a special place in hell for designers/copy editors/whomever is to blame for this! GRRRR.

Did you try to Google "Twilley's Danielle errata" to see what you find? Not that it'll help much at this point. Good luck!

[Stephanie]

I just wrote about this. It drives me nuts. It's not just that there is an annoying error. It's the waste of your time and the fact that you bought something that didn't work. If it was a toaster you'd take it back and they would give you your money back and they would be sorry, and you would be vindicated. Meanwhile, with patterns they don't even list errata. I won't bore you with how I think it's a feminist issue...but I do.

[margene]

It's so pretty. Hope you can work out the bugs. It is annoying to say the least when a pattern has big errors. Maybe we need to start a movement so 'they' know we are tired of wasting our knitting time!

[Gaile]

We have a demo model at the yarn store I work at. When I'm there tomorrow I'll find out who knit it and ask her if she had any problems? Would that help at all?

[Anne]

Aw, crap. I should have googled for this long before now, but I'm finished with the back and halfway through the top. There is no way I'm re-doing all of that lace on the back at this point, so I think I'm screwed and this poor project is trashed, unless I can think of something else clever to do.

Thanks for pointing this out before I got any farther along on this wasted path. :(

Your finished top looks awesome though!