[Nfb-krafters-korner] Knitting Life Line - WAS: silky twist yarn and gree...

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I really need to say, it is worth every  penny to purchase the size 00  40 
inche or 60 inche circular needle for a life line.  You only need to use  it 
once for a dropped stitch and you will understand it was worth the  money.
 
Joyce  Kane
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Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 12/29/2012 9:43:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
amcarr1 at verizon.net writes:

Hi  Candy,

Welcome to the list.  When knitting, I use a life  line.  This is when you
use some type of line inserted into your  stitches on your needle.  I use a
00 circular needle that is 48 or 60  inches long.  I slide it into each
stitch on my needle and just let it  dangle while I continue knitting.  I
like to insert it along either  the last row of the pattern repeat or the
first row.  If something  goes wrong while I am knitting the next repeat of
the pattern, I can rip  back to the life line, insert my working needle into
the stitches on the  life line and start re-knitting.  

I sometimes work with 2 life  lines.  For example, if I am working with a
pattern that has a ten row  repeat with the even rows being purled, I will
complete the pattern  once.  I then insert the life line through the 
stitches
of row ten  that are on my needle.  Now I knit the pattern for the second
time,  and insert a second life line through the stitches of row 10 that are
now  on my needle.  After I complete the pattern for the third time, I  pull
life line one out and insert it into row ten of the third pattern  repeat.
After I complete the pattern for the fourth time, I pull out the  life line
that was inserted into row 10 of the second pattern repeat and  insert it
into row ten of the fourth pattern repeat.

If you do not  want to buy a very thin very long circular needle, you could
try using some  type of yarn that feels different than the yarn that you are
knitting  with.  While this technique is easier to insert, I find it  very
difficult to pick up my stitches off of it when I have to rip back to  it.  

HTH,
Annette

-----Original Message-----
From:  Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  
On
Behalf Of Candy Berg
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:26 PM
To:  nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Re; silky  twist yarn and greetings

Hi Terry,

The silky twist yarn is made  by Lion brand. I end up getting a lot of my
yarn from Lion brand because I  find their site and patterns are so screen
reader accessible, which I  really appreciate.
Thank you for the welcome. You are correct, I haven't  introduced myself. I
live in California and I'm a crocheter. I would love  to be a knitter, as
well; but my problem is that when I make a mistake in  knitting I have to
take it back to the yarn store to fix the problem. On  the other hand, in
crochet I can just rip it out myself and that's more  convenient. So, if
anyone has any tricks for undoing knitting, I'd love to  know about them. I
can usually tell where the mistake was made, it's  getting back to the
trouble spot that is the issue for me.

Best  regards to all,
Candy  


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