[NFB-Krafters-Korner] My circular needles and worsted weight yarn are driving me crazy!

[Jeanette Kutash]

Ari, if you have a yarn needle you may be able to get the knot out by
loosening it with the needle. Sometimes with red heart yarn the fluffiness
of the hairs get stuck together and sometimes it helps to see where they
trace from. Failing that, since this is only practice, you could cut the
yarn and get the messed up part of the work off that way. If you have any
long needles or straight needles, I might try using those. It is possible to
get the circular needle positions so that it is not in your way, but I might
wait till I had some knitting done and felt more comfortable with the
process. And if need be I or Ramona or Terry could help you learn a simpler
cast on. 

Jeanette Kutash

Jeanette 

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Ari;
If one end of your circular needle is free of stitches, you should be able
to slide the knot down the cable, to the empty needle, widen the knot and
maybe after sliding it off, untangle it.
That sure is a long cable for learning on!

Terry

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Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] My circular needles and worsted weight yarn
are driving me crazy!

So, I decided to give my circular needles another try. I'm not really a fan
of this Red Heart Soft yarn. It's an acrylic worsted weight yarn. I think I
want to try weight 5 next time--this stuff is just so thin! Anyhow, I've run
into a very annoying issue, which I'm finding difficult to fix, do to the
thinness of the yarn. Somehow, I've gotten the working yarn notted around my
work on the cable. This cable is really annoyingly kinky, and seems to
spring around all over the place. These are Clover bamboo Takumi 29 inch
fixed circs. I can't undo this knot. I was trying to unwind the yarn from
around the cable, and it somehow got knotted. It's not surprising, given how
light and thin this yarn is--at least to me. I'm stuck. I think I'll ask my
husband to take a look at it. From what I can tell, I think the yarn is
actually knotted around the cable, not the work itself. :( This stinks. It's
annoying and slightly ammusing at the same time.

I've heard of getting circular cables to relax by dipping them in boiling
water or something like that, but I'm a bit nervous to do it, as I'm worried
about ruining the cable or something. I'm seriously considering sending
these back to Amazon. I'm really not a fan of how the knitting looks. I
guess I just like thicker-type projects. If I'm going to make things for my
niece and nephew, I want to start by making them blankets. They live in the
desert in Southern California, and it gets cold at night there, so this
isn't really a bad plan.


Thanks,
Ari
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