Before:
Back to where I was:
It only took me 2 days to tink back 4 rows, reknit everything, realize that the dropped stitches were fortuitous because there was a mistake 2 rows below where I had tinked back to…. so back I went again, this time a little further… and back up. Now I will put in a lifeline before I do any more knitting.
I tried to fix the hole three times, but after awhile I wasn’t sure which thread was from which row (it had dropped down 3-4 rows)… which stitch was supposed to be twisted or ssk or how many yarn overs I was missing. The stitches I was remaking were awfully tight making me think I had created a few stitches that weren’t meant to be there. I had a vague idea of where I was and what needed to be done… but I was missing a couple of stitches… I think.
This morning I just decided that I would actually be getting somewhere round about now if I had just started tinking instead of trying to reconstruct. There would probably be less frustration as well. Knitting has certainly taught me that mistakes are fixable… some just take more time than others. The lesson learned this week: When I think that perhaps I should stop and put in a lifeline, I should stop and put in a lifeline. Being able to just take this off my needles and rip back to a lifeline would be so much easier than slowly… painstakingly picking each stitch out. Sure, the purled rows are a breeze, but I’m not looking forward to taking out the three-stitches-to-one decreases in the next row.
Tomorrow, if all goes well with the tinking, I will post before and after pics.
Dropped stitches can be picked up, just like buildings rebuilt after an earthquake*.
Knitting away on the shawl the other night (within rows of getting to the repeat section) I dropped a couple stitches on a purling row*… and of course, in lace, dropping a couple of stitches turns into dropping several stitches. Thankfully, I am beginning to get a feel for the design** and believe I can fix it without too much difficultiy… just need to find a time when my patience is at an all time high.
Nothing quite like accidently deleting your entire template while trying to add Haloscan comments to your blog. That was a lot of fun. Decided that I wanted a tmeplate with a little more color. Had to track down all the links I had on my sidebar and set them up again. Had to redo the code for the comments… at least this time I got them set up where I wanted them.
I, unfortuantely, did not get anywhere near where I wanted to be the other night because I had to tink out a couple of rows. I think when I get to the repeat section I’ll put in a lifeline… it would be so much easier to be able to rip back to a place I knew was right rather than trying to figure out where one mistake might be and slowly, stitch by stitch, work back to it…. especially as the shawl grows in size.
I need to clean all my knitting stuff off the spare bed sometime this afternoon. My sister is flying out to Florida to see her fiancee and needs to be at the airport at 5:30 Wednesday morning, so she’ll be staying with us Tuesday night. Haven’t had to use the guest bed in some time, and it had thus become a wonderful place to stack all sorts of spinning and knitting related items. Now I need to find homes for all of them… fun fun.
I think I will try to work on the shawl some more after I clean off the bed.
I thought I was getting off to a good start casting on my sister’s wedding shawl a week and a half ago. I have even gotten into the lace pattern, but I haven’t yet reached the repeat section. I figure I ‘ve got about 2 and a half months to finish it and still have time to block it… I just need to sit down and do it. If it weren’t white I’d feel more comfortable taking it places, but I’m terrified of getting it dirty.
I will try to at least get to the repeat section tonight, and then, the shawl will go with me to the LYS tomorrow for several hours of knitting.
I should take a picture of it before I start working on it tonight so that I can really see the progress as I go.
This is a silk and baby alpaca blend that I spun myself on a spindle. This silk is dyed pink, purple, and green, while the alpaca was only green… bright, lime green.