I may be knitting a pair of Te Ara mitts,
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but I'm certainly not getting a tiara for my efforts.
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| Te Ara Mitts |
Things were going so well until that last row of cabling.
I'm not sure what to do about it. It's three rows back. Three rows is a lot of tinking. I know, I know, there are only 52 stitches per row. It's not That much tinking... but it sure feels like a lot. But frogging those rows and trying to pick the cabled stitches back up seems scarier.
This mitt may end up in the time-out corner for a while.
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| magnetic cable needles |
It's only escape may be my fascination with my new cable needles. I bought them because I liked the way they look. They're bamboo with a metal section in the center. I thought the metal was purely for decoration but it turns out, they stick to a magnet. So, if you're using one of those magnetized chart keepers....
Magnetic or not, I love these new cable needles. There's five of them in different sizes and the join between the bamboo and the metal is just course enough to hold the stitches well. It's not so rough that it snags the stitches, but they don't accidentally slip off. I wonder if that was planned.
As for project details, I am/was knitting the mitts with Knit Pick's Palette in Spruce and using a US2 needle. I really like Spruce's bluey-greenness.
A time out may help, but I think tinking back is going to be your best bet. You just need to be in the right state of mind to do it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement. I'm super close to finishing a lace shawl that's been on the needles for a while so I've decided to focus on getting it finished then I'll revisit Te Ara.
DeleteSuch a pretty color! hope you can fix it without too much pain!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It really shouldn't be hard to fix. I'm being a bit of a drama queen about it. :)
DeleteThose needles are brilliant! I have frogged and knit back up many a naughty cable. It is a hair raising job but it does work. I love how cables look but I hate knitting them for that very reason.
ReplyDeleteI've decided to tink back because I'll never figure out what I'm doing with the cable stitches other wise. I've never knit a cable as complicated as this one before. It's not really complicated, there are just a LOT more steps to it than a normal cable.
DeleteCan you run an "afterthought lifeline" through the stitches a couple of rows back? (That's my best knitting trick when I have to rip back.)
ReplyDeleteThe cable is kind of tricky - at least for me - so I think I'll just tink back. The tinking may help me understand how the cable works a little better so maybe next time I mess up it won't feel so disastrous. :)
DeleteDoes it help to know been there, done that? Probably not. But I am grieving along with you!!!
ReplyDeleteI would just start over (but that is me). I hate when I do stuff like that, I undid an entire cuff because I wanted the next size larger!!
ReplyDeletePretty mitts with one of my favorite colors. Sometimes I find that it is easier to pull out a cabled design than try to tink back and keep track of the backtracking. I'd probably rip back to the ribbing but just a thought.
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