You could potentially cut off the ribbing, capture the live sts and re-knit the ribbing in the opposite direction, reducing the stitch count and/or reducing the needle size.
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In theory ribbing should always be knit on needles a size or two smaller than the body's. It looks like that didn't happen here. I second Roxanne's advice. Note you snip a single stitch and rip out the entire row from there, not cut along the ribbing. It's easy to pickup from there
Thanks for the helpful tips. I definitely did use smaller needles for the ribbing, but the ribbing is not very elastic, having a cable detail to look pretty. It's possible that my tension wasn't tight enough; sometimes yarns don't knit smaller no matter what you do with needles.
In that case, you might want to substitute a plain ribbing.. Or you'll have to also figure out how many stitches to take out, which could get very involved. The silver lining is that it'd be faster to knit 🙄
Okay, you've convinced me. I've done so many sweater surgeries before, but hadn't embraced it emotionally yet for this one. I have the yarn on hand and can unpick the seams. And while it's a little more time commitment, the knitting rhythm is a more familiar one than sewing skills.
That's my plan B. We're trying the tacky method first. And if it works, I'm the kind of person who can't not tell on myself when I find a captive audience. (Why do I do this? he asks in italics)
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