[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches

Susan Roe dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
Thu Dec 23 16:36:05 UTC 2010 

Wonderful!

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches


> Thank you so much, Susan. You are so right. My frustration level last week 
> was over the top. My poor husband was sitting there watching TV when I 
> discovered that hole in the bottom of the shawl. He felt helpless as I had 
> my anxiety attack and finally began to rip down the entire shawl. I have 
> since reknitted it and it is finished. And, you are right, i still try to 
> SEE my knitting - I put my eyes right onto it and try to see it - and of 
> course I cannot, but I still think I can if I try hard enough.  My brain 
> still has not accepted it! haha
>
> On the happy side, my customer from Rome, Italy arrived this week to pick 
> up the shawl she had commissioned me to make for her to gift to a friend. 
> I made two different versions of the shawl, in two different yarns, so she 
> could have a choice. She loved them both and finally picked the one that I 
> had put a band of patterning in, across the back of it. I was present when 
> she gifted it to our firned and she was beyond happy with the shawl. So, I 
> did have a happy outcome to that one and that made me feel very proud of 
> what I had done.
>
> Still knitting,   Lynda River Woman
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches
>
>
>> Hi Linda,
>>
>> I believe you will be able to eventually not only fix your own knitting 
>> blunders, but be able to do just about everything knitting you did before 
>> you lost your sight.  Your biggest hinderence is not your lack of sight, 
>> but your level of frustration when you have a problem.  Right now, you 
>> are still thinking sighted and not blind.  I can't tell you how many 
>> countless projects I have ripped out for the very reasons you have 
>> described.  My husband laughs at me because I won't hesitate ripping 
>> something out and starting over if I have noticed a problem more than 
>> three inches below my needles.  I always!!! use a safety line when I am 
>> working on repeditive or complicated patterns because I can't fix dropped 
>> stitches in pattern combinations other than garder, ss or k2 p2 ribbing. 
>> I had rather be able to rip back to my safety line and start back from 
>> there.  I was knitting a scarf that I was repeating a shell pattern from 
>> beginning to end and I must have pulled that scarf out 6 times and had 
>> gotten as far as half way done before I got it through my thick skull to 
>> use the safety line between each shell pattern repeat.  Frustration is 
>> going to happen, there is no getting around it and I have had my husband 
>> (God bless his soul) kneeling by my chair many times helping me locate in 
>> a pattern visually where I had either dropped a stitch or forgot to 
>> change a pattern so I needed to know how far down I would have to rip out 
>> or if I would just have to start all over again.
>>
>> That is another reason I have multiple projects to work on because 
>> sometimes when the frustration level has gotten way too high on a 
>> project, I have to put it down and work on something else before I dare 
>> pick it back up again. I don't like to be stumped and if I am working on 
>> something new, I refuse to give up on it until I have absolutely tried it 
>> from all angles and then if it just isn't working for me, then I can at 
>> least say I tried, but it isn't the project for me.
>>
>> Don't consintrate on what you were able to do before, just consintrate on 
>> each finished project as you go.  Always check your projects every three 
>> inches or so to keep from finding those mistakes way, way down there when 
>> you are almost finished a great project.
>>
>> Susan R.
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:03 AM
>> 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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