All is not lost

All is not lost Yesterday I got a letter from Sue. Sue wrote: I'm knitting Teva Durham's Cabled Riding Jacket. Everything was zipping along until I noticed that six rows back I crossed one cable out of many in the wrong direction... Even as I write, I feel that it's hopeless, but some niggling little sprite tells me not to give up yet. That sprite would be me, though I've never been called niggling before, at least not to my face. The Proper way. 1. All cables leaning right, and there, six rows back, a six stitch cable deliberately leaning left with shameless disregard for order or The Way That Things Should Be. 2. Begin frogging back, being sure to leave uninvolved stitches on the needles. 3. 4. and slide them onto the third dpn in their new, spiritually gratifying, correct order. 5. 6. This will be a fiddly pain in the arse. 7. slide the dpn through the stitches to the left, sort through your strands for the lowest one, and repeat knitting across the row. Desperate measures. See that? ???

Technickety: How to unvent a simple cable I had a heap of messages asking where the cable for Jeff's glove came from. It's a fairly generic multi-strand cable; called a "Saxon Braid" (thanks, Purly White!). I see Wendy at wendyknits has used it for a sweater, and I'm sure it's to be found in stitch dictionaries. That said, being able to read an existing cable and knowing how to reconstruct it is a very useful skill. ***I should say my intention here isn't to be patronizing at all; I'm sure most of you have been doing this for a long time without this kind of manic detail. According to my definition, a "simple cable": is composed of individual "strands" of stockinette on a reverse stockinette backgroundis composed of strands that travel, meet, and cross (never more than two at a time)has strands that may be composed of any number of stockinette stitches, but stitches within a strand always act as one; that is, they travel together and cross together. Step by step 9) Add your WS row with strands as established. See?

How-To: Simple Tubular Cast-on | pieKnits Posted by pieKnits on November 15, 2010 For a recent camping trip I decided I need a portable project and cast-on for the ever popular Star Crossed Slouchy Beret. However, I wanted to mod the cast on for one of my favorite seamless ones. A tubular cast-on for 1×1 ribbing in the round. The great thing about this cast-on is it doesn’t require learning any new maneuvers or stitches, just a little scrap yarn. Simple Tubular Cast-on Tutorial First, determine half the number of sts indicated in the pattern plus one. Slip the last cast-on stitch over the first cast-on stitch and off the needle (36 sts remain). Switch to your working yarn and work: Round 1: *K1, yo; rep from * – 72 sts. Round 2: P1, *k1, slip 1 purl-wise with yarn in front; rep from *. Round 3: *P1, sl1 pwise with yarn in back; rep from *.Repeat Rounds 2 and 3 one more time. Now you’ll switch to the indicated size needles and work your regular 1×1 ribbing for however many rows to match the pattern. Ta-da!

TECHknitting™ knit and tonic You know how it is when a song is in your head. It makes it worse when you can't recall the lyrics in total. But your brain hums it as you go through your day and at some point you feel like subjecting yourself to "It's a Small World" to break the monotony. But enough of that. The song that has been in my head is "Stardust" as sung by Nat King Cole. So, I'm in a bedroom and laying on a big bed with lots of white sheets, pillows and a fluffy duvet (much like the one I sleep in every night). "Sometimes I wonder, how I spendThe lonely nightsDreaming of a song . . ." And I sit up, lean over to him, look into his eyes and join him in song (with a really good Julie Andrews voice): ". . . Then, two good looking dark-skinned men wearing Calvin Klein white underwear come behind us and lean through the open windows, reach over to Mullen, and begin to rub his shoulders. Next thing I know, I'm in nursing school. "Sometimes I wonder, why I spendThe lonely nightsDreaming of a song . . ." ". . . ". . .

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