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As I feared, there isn’t much for me to write about today. I’ve been working on the Alien Illusion Scarf and there really isn’t much to show except more of the same. So I’ll share a little adventure I had the other day with my sock. I had to frog about 2 inches due to an error I made in the cable pattern.
There is this moment of fear that I get when I tear the needles away from all the precious loops, but once I get going the frogging is the easy part. The hard part is picking up the stitches back onto the needles.
I’m always afraid that one of the precious stitches will start unraveling and travel beyond any hope of redemption. Lifelines are a great way to prevent this type of situation, but I find that any time I put in a lifeline, I inevitably find a mistake below the lifeline or I don’t need the lifeline. Plus they are pesky things that require much fiddling. So I usually just neglect the use of them completely.
In lace knitting, I find it easier to repair a single stitch or a group of stitches by unravelling them and reworking them with a crochet hook. I find this harder to do in sock knitting due to the fact that the stitches are usually much smaller and the fabric is much tighter or denser, since I usually use size 1’s or 0’s. It’s usually easier to just frog or tink back to where I made the mistake.
One thing’s for sure, I heave a huge sigh of relief when I’m down with whatever knit repair I have to do and I’m back on target once again for a project.
All this talk of lace repair, plus the hype of Lacevember has got me itchin’ slightly to do some lace knitting again. Have you seen the gorgeous Casino shawl?
I really must finish my Christmas knitting first though. I’d like for this to be the first year that I actually finish the majority of my gifts in time. Wouldn’t that be great?
