[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches

Sat Dec 25 05:33:59 UTC 2010

Lynda,

I haven't read the other responses yet, but the key that I have found to
doing this is stitch markers. Place them every 10 or 20 stitches or at
section breaks. Always check your count each row. This helps me catch
mistakes within one row. Now, even when I catch that there is a problem,
sometimes it will take me working on it a long time. A simple dropped stitch
is typically easier to find but if I have added a stitch, it can take me
quite a while. Sometimes it requires me tinking back to the section to
figure out the problem.

Just keep at it and trying new methods and different advice from others on
the list. Eventually, you'll find a method that works for you. I know you
can do it!

Cindy S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> River Woman
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:03 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> 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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