Knitting help pleeease! I thought I was oh so bloody clever! :(

[Mummyteachmummy]

I decided I wanted to knit DD a cardi with her initial emblazoned on the back. I decided I could do this by simply taking a plain cardi knitting pattern, and freestyling the letter into the back.

The pattern for the shape I came up with is (miraculously!) fine, but the tension from the threads at the back where I've switched the two colours back and forth is disastrous - the whole back of the cardi is pulled into a pretty crappy rouche (sp?!)!

So what do I do? How is it actually supposed to be done? I can't stand to start again, and my thought is cutting the offending stretched across bits of wool at the back (and there are hundreds of little stretches across - the letter is 50 lines high) and tying them each off iyswim?

Is that going to work or will the whole thing just fall to bits? So gutted - DD has seen it in progress and is so excited, but there's no way I can sew it up in it's current state! :(

What Footle said. Use more than one ball of the background colour so you don't have to weave it across the letter colour.

It's 49 stitches wide! I'll definitely look up intarsia for next time...

But what do I do NOW?! Can I do the cutting and tying off thing do you think?!

Oh, sorry, it's 49 stiches wide but obviously, being a letter, not in one big block; the individual sections of it are about 9 stiches wide. No idea if this is making any sense whatsoever, sorry...

Oh, and thank you both! Sorry, I forgot that bit in my grump about my FAILURE! :(

I would pull out and do with intarsia and separate balls. Footle is right. It will look masses better and be quicker. You'll have a few ends to darn in but everyone will be impressed with the result.

If you have enough yarn you could just re-start the back and only unravel if you run out later on.
good explanation here