Monday, July 19, 2010

Two knitting fiascos to fix

When I was making my car seat blanket, I hit a snag. I knit the pattern eight rows too far! I knitted the eyelet pattern instead of just straight knitting and purling to make the border. I really didn't want to rip out and knit eight rows again, so I decided to try to go back and take out just the eyelet pattern (which takes place over 6 of the 8 rows), like dropped stitches, and pick them up as knits....

Here are the eyelets that shouldn't be....



I carefully dropped all five stitches involved and put them on a spare DP....



Then I picked them up one by one with a crochet hook, and brought them up the ladders...



Ta-da!...

I did that about 6 times all the way across the blanket and I'm pretty sure it saved me time. You can't even tell in the finished/blocked product!



Also, what is wrong with this picture?....


...I welded the new ball to the tail! Luckily, a very quick fix. But still.... der.


Customer Show and Tell:

Kathy in her gorgeous February Lady Sweater made with Cascade 220 Heathers:




Mary Jo's adorable baby hats made with assorted yarns:

4 comments:

Nancy G said...

Liz,

Don't feel too bad about joining the yarn to the wrong end. I am making the Nancy scarf and was 3/4 finished when I started a new color and did not realize until I had done 200 stitches that I was going the wrong way and joined the ends of my scarf together so I had to take out 200 stitches to get back to the beginning of the row and go the right direction. (Insert expletives here)

Alison said...

Liz,

My vote is for the red wooden buttons :) The finished product looks awesome! (Even without buttons)

Susan Young Mercer said...

Liz,
Our new baby girl wants you to knit that PINK one for her - Dana would love it! :0)
Mom

Susan Young Mercer said...

Lizzie! :)
Our new baby girl wants you to knit her
that gaugeous pink baby hat ... Dana would love it ...LOL
Mom