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October 23, 2018


success!
posted by soe 1:23 am

Remember how last week I discovered my shawl looked like this?

Nope

I theorized that instead of ripping back the eight or so long rows that I’d misknit, that since it was only that center pattern that was affected, I could just drop down the misknit stitches and then pick them back up correctly.

The challenge to this is that the fancy hole in the middle of the row is a make-7 stitch (where you turn one stitch into seven), which was going to be more difficult that just your normal use a crochet hook to pick up a row of stitches…

But as of tonight, the shawl now looks like this:

Success!

And now I’m back knitting the final few full-length rows before I start to bind off.

It wasn’t fun or easy and I’m not actually certain I saved any time in the process over ripping back (or, at least, over an ideal ripping back scenario where I get all the stitches on the needle to begin with.

But I was able to do it and the little bit of wonkiness you can see should block out when I’m done, since it’s just a matter of tension on those stitches.

The end is definitely in sight for this project!

Category: knitting. There is/are 4 Comments.



Oh go you! BRAVO!! I bow to your spectacular knitting skills!

Comment by Kat 10.23.18 @ 8:32 am

Good for You

Comment by kathy b 10.23.18 @ 5:15 pm

I swear I have at least three wraps started and none finished. I think it’s because of the heat here in Florida! I’m going to take it with me this weekend because I have some downtime at the conference. I can’t wait to see your finished shawl.

Comment by Christy 10.23.18 @ 6:11 pm

Wow! That looks great!

Comment by Karen 10.24.18 @ 7:26 am