USMP strife

My Union Square Market Pullover is undergoing some . . . frogging.

I don’t quite know what’s going on. First, I was doing the armhole shaping, and then checked the stitches and the numbers of the front and back were wrong. Ok, I’ll take it out and start the armhole shaping again.

But I noticed this one row where my tension seemed different. It was making a line across the entire work and was too noticeable, in my book. I figured it was because of the beginning of working flat–I guess my purls are of a different tension.

I decided to take the opportunity, when I took it out, to work on adjusting my purling tension. But after just a few rows, I had another ‘line’–and it was about two rows below the purling row. Was this just the original tight row? Or a new one? Either way, it was two rows before I began purling. This meant that purls were not the culprit, but what was?

Unsure, I took out two or three more rows. Started knitting. I’m really hoping I don’t end up with another line. Because if I do, the only explanation I can think of is that it appears when I take the work out to that point. It may be aligned with the row that I pick the stitches back up on. And if that’s the case, well, argh.

My boyfriend thinks I just knit on, forget about the line, and hope it comes out in blocking (I can’t even believe he knows that this is a possibility–of course, he didn’t use the term ‘blocking,’ but that’s irrelevant). I think he’s right. There’s only so much frogging I can do in one day.