The Skirt Continues Ad Nauseum
I am still working on this insane project, believe it or not. I had a couple of teeth extracted a few weeks ago and thought that this might result in some prime knitting time; instead it resulted in a blood clot in my arm which is basically the opposite. I've just started to be able to knit again in the last couple of days, so I am trying to take it easy but make up for my lack of progress. I'm probably about halfway done, but I've hit a small roadblock. See, here is the skirt:
I am a little bit past halfway done with that lacy part with the ribbons, and soon I am going to have to start doing the decreases for waist-shaping. I had sat down and done all of this math because I am so unnaturally hip-py, and I need it to be 42 inches at my hips but then decrease down to 35 inches at my waist in a relatively short amount of time. So I was re-checking my gauges to make sure everything was in place, since I seem to have a problem with gauge which I assume is the result of being off a quarter or half a stitch multipled by 15 in the real garment, when I had my idiotic realization: if I make the waist 35 inches, I won't be able to get this skirt over my hips.
So now I am not sure what to do. I can try to calculate the ease to figure out the absolute smallest circumference that will go around my hips, then add elastic, or a ribbon, or both at the waist. I could also start knitting it flat just past this lacy part and sew in a zipper, though I don't really know how to sew a zipper into knitting. I might also be able to do something similar but using a ribbon lace-up, which could be cute. Do I have other options I haven't thought of? I am terrified that I will put all of this work into something only to screw it up right at the end.