[Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafting Miracle!

[Theresa Taylor]

Ilene,
That is so awesome! It shows how perseverance pays off! I am so happy for 
you!
Theresa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: <Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:33 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafting Miracle!


> Okay, this is my own short story of a Christmas miracle...
>
> Since last week, I've been working on a military hat/face warmer for my 
> brother-in-law as a Christmas present. I wanted to finish it by tonight, 
> wash it and lay it out for blocking tomorrow and then if it stretched I 
> could re-wet and put in the drier to try and shrink it minimally.
>
> I finished the main hat portion last night without any problems, even was 
> smart enough to weave in my ends at that point so I would not have minor 
> finishing to deal  with at the end.  Then started on the face ribbing. 
> All was going well, except as I was sitting and working on it this 
> afternoon while readjusting my stitch markers I thought I felt something 
> weird!
>
> Panic!  The cable on my adjustable needle broke and about 30 or 40 
> stitches were just hanging there.  I felt heart sick and instantly started 
> thinking "Oh, s - - t" I'm going to have to rip the entire thing out and 
> it would never get done for Christmas.  Picking up stitches has remained 
> one of my short comings where my knitting is concerned. I tried my best to 
> stay cool as best I could without letting it get the best of me. I started 
> to think about what would be the best way to even try to attempt getting 
> all those dropped stitches back on the needles with the least frustration.
>
> Instantly, I went and got 2 size 0 needles, one that I use as a life line 
> and one that I have just as a skinny needle tool for other tricky knots 
> and dropped stitches which is a straight 0 needle, the smallest crochet 
> hook from my set. And of course a packet of the ever loved Clover locking 
> stitch markers.
>
> First those stitches that actually remained on the needle point I slipped 
> onto the size 0 circular needle, pushed them onto the cable portion and 
> just let it hang there while I worked on those that were in limbo.  I took 
> up the size 0 straight needle and no matter if I was able to grab up a 
> single nice loop or loops that felt doubled or triple thickness scooped 
> them onto the straight needle and used the clover locking markers to catch 
> the remaining stitches that already started running down the ribbing.
>
> Next I started to tink (knit backwards/unknit) stitch by stitch to make 
> them all behave and line up.  I was even able to use the crochet hook to 
> re hook up those stitches that were held by the locking markers. 
> Amazingly I finally figured out how to hook them up on both the 
> stockinette side and the rev st st sides. Whew!  After about 2 hours of 
> carefully working through this I got them all back; stitch count correct 
> and pattern in tact.  I know 2 hours of time sounds like a lot, but keep 
> in mind I've been working on this hat since about last Thursday.  Two 
> hours as compared to an entire weeks work is nothing.
>
> So tonight I've been happily working on my ribbing, have bound off and 
> will be able to launder it tomorrow and see what the fit is like.  I'm so 
> happy that I could actually get them all straightened out on my own and 
> was able to properly use the crochet hook on both the knit & purl sides of 
> the fabric to keep the ribbing pattern correct!
>
> Merry Christmas to all!
>
> Eileen
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