[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches

Thu Dec 23 15:40:23 UTC 2010

I am going to take your advice and do the Life Lines and get the stitch 
markers! thank you.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches


> Linda:
>
> Did you use life lines in the project?  In a large project like a shawl 
> I'd suggest putting in not 1 but 2 life lines and as you keep making 
> progress and feel your knitting before you remove one of them.  Once you 
> are certain there is no problem, take out the lower level life line and 
> move it up.
>
> I also strongly suggest that you get yourself the brand, "Clover" 2 
> packages of "locking stitch markers."  Do not get split stitch markers 
> they are very different.  In the case you drop a stitch or stitches, even 
> if you can't work them back up your self, they will be helpful to another 
> knitter who does repairs for you.  If you feel loops just hanging out in 
> space on your fabric put a locking marker into the loop so it will not be 
> able to run any further down the knitted fabric.
>
> You will be able to pick up stitches that have dropped, but in lace 
> patterns they are exceptionally difficult and they only help there is to 
> keep multiple life lines going.  Keep counting your stitches and even put 
> stitch markers on the needles so that you will know between each set of 
> markers you should have X number of stitches.  If that number is not what 
> you expect then you know there is a problem and in what section of your 
> knitting it went qwrong.
>
> Eileen
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:03 AM
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches
>
>> This is my biggest problem in knitting. I have been blind for three 
>> years, and have knitted all my life. I could do anything with knitting 
>> when I could see. Now, if I drop a stitch it is an emergency. I have 
>> tried and tried to catch the dropped stitches or fix a hole I find in my 
>> cloth after I have knitted a couple of inches above it. I cannot do it. 
>> It is so frustrating. Just last week, I had knitted the entire back of a 
>> shawl, and then discovered a hole near the vbeginning. I tore the entire 
>> thing out to begin all over again. This is so frustrating to me.  Later, 
>> I goofed up and dropped stitches on both sides of the front.  I struggled 
>> so much trying to fix them.  I did the best I could - it is particularly 
>> impossible for me if it is a garter stitch!  I finally emailed my friend 
>> and said I have a "knitting emergency" and she came over and fixed 
>> everything for me. I do not have the sensitivity in my fingers to find 
>> those lost stitches. My fingers are calloused from knitting and doing 
>> beadwork  and making pottery all the time. Will I EVER be able to FIX my 
>> own knitting blunders???? Lynda River Woman
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:35 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Christmas Crafting Miracle!
>>
>>
>>> You, go girl!  Hmmmm, it sounds like you have another class to teach in 
>>> the
>>> new year, possibly?  Hahahahaha!
>>>
>>> No seriously, I had quite a time of it saving my dropped stitches when 
>>> my
>>> sight was 20/15, I can't begin to imagine being able to do it so
>>> successfully sighted much less by touch.  Great job!
>>>
>>> I will have to remember your patience if, or more likely,  when I come 
>>> up
>>> against that kind of challenge.
>>>
>>> Merry Christmas!!
>>>
>>> Dixie
>>> ~  @-> ~ <-@  ~
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eileen 
>>> Scrivani
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:33 PM
>>> To: Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>> 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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