This last pattern rule isn't so much a rule as a manifestation of anal retentiveness, but here we go. The patterns had to line up one stripe to the next. Some of the patterns were built on a 4 repeat, some on a 6, some on an 8 and some on a 12, so they couldn't be perfectly aligned, but they could (and did) line up at least once per 12. Every last one of them did line up at least once per 12. Usually, more than once. There are some beautiful patterns out there based on 7s and 11s, but you won't find them on my sweater. There had to be a common denominator between two adjacent rows.
I did flub once. I knit a little more than a whole stripe before I realised that I was off by one stitch. The image above is what it looked like just before I unpicked back to the last commensurate stripe. I couldn't have lived with it. The ridge in that photo is created by the needle going through the stitches in the fabric. Since that was where I was going to frog back to, I had already picked up the stitches in that row.
I am glad that I fixed it. It doesn't actually take that long to do the thing right. But it does take a bit of OCD.
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