[Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! need advice!

Tue Feb 7 13:15:19 UTC 2017

Susan;
A life line is a place holder, used to prevent your stitches from coming out when you remove stitches.  Most people put a life line, every 10 or 20 rows or when there is a patern repeat.  This allows the knitter to take out stitches, if they make a mistake, back to the life line, with out all loosing the stitches, behind the life line.

If I did 10 rows of knit, then I would put in a life line, knit 10 more rows and add another life line, then knit 10 rows.  Now if there are no errors, I can remove the first life line and insert it.  If I found an error in my last section, I could pull out my last 10 rows and still have 20 rows on my life line, ready to knit back onto my needles.

A life line can be a size 0 or 00 knitting needle, ribbon, thicker yarn...
It needs to be a lot longer than your work, so it can dangle, outside your work and not be in the way.

Hope this helps.

Terry P.

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From: Susan Stanzel via Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org] 
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! need advice!

Hi Listers,

I don't know what you mean about a life line.

Susie Stanzel

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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! need advice!

Hi, Henry.
You can put a lifeline in, no matter what the shape of your piece is.
Just make sure you have the amount of ribbon for the length of your piece, plus some extra for threading. I use the lifeline as much as possible, changing them whenever I need to. For example, when I do socks, I put one in after the toes, then halfway up the foot. Then I take the one from the toes out and put it where the live stitches are when I finish the sole and want to turn the heel. The stitches just sit on the lifeline the way they would sit on the cable of your needle, so you can pull the lifeline out when you're done.

I use the ribbon because I can tell it apart from the yarn, and because it slips out easily when the lifeline needs to be removed.

HTH,
Dani

On 2/6/17, Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I have never done it, but it should be able to be done.  Where the 
> circle closes, would be where your 2 ends of the life line would meet 
> and cross, to make an x, kind of.  Then dangle from there.
> I might try it when I start the sead and top of the vest.
> Cathy, I found it helpful to put markers, every 24 stitches, to help 
> count, when I casted on and to tell what stitch I was on.  It is a lot 
> easier to count 24 than a large number.  You want your markers to be a 
> multiple of 6, because of the patern in the body.  My total stitch 
> count was 144 so 24 worked fine.
> If you have any questions on knitting from the smaller to the larger, 
> feal free to call me.  It is not hard.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Osborne via Nfb-krafters-korner 
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 12:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! 
> need advice!
>
> Hi Cathy, I feel so bad for you too.
> Does anyone know if you can install lifelines on a circular knitted 
> pattern like this?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Powers via Nfb-krafters-korner
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 3:39 PM
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> Cc: Terry Powers
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! 
> need advice!
>
> Cathy;
> I am sorry about all your problems with the vest.  Make sure you knit 
> from one needle to the other not move!
> Hope my directions help. You know how to reach me, if you have any 
> more questions.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
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> need advice!
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>
> Oh, Cathy, I'm so sorry to hear about the vest.  How frustrating for you.
>
> Nella
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Flesher via Nfb-krafters-korner
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> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] dropped stitches, I'm crying now!! need 
> advice!
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Well, I was making such good progress with knitting my vest. Then, I 
> had finished the ribbing and was attempting to transfer my stitches 
> onto a larger neeedle when, oh my, oh no, but yes!!! I began dropping 
> stitches. I grabbed stitch markers and dove down into the yarn 
> searching for the dropped stitches. I would catch one only to lose the 
> one
next to it.
>
> long story short,I frogged the vest and began it again tonight. So my 
> question is this, what is the best way to transfer stitches to a new 
> circular needle when knitting in the round? I attempted to transfer 
> over a stitch at a time, but the stitches got twisted and began 
> jumping off of my needles.
>
>
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have a great day!!
>
> Cathy F
>
>
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