triumph

[fox]

Normally, when I discover a mistake or for some other reason decide I need to go back a fair way in my knitting, I despair. This is because while I can tink just fine, that's only good for a few rows -- tonight I had whole inches of sock to undo. And I don't do at all well simply ripping out work and threading the needle through the live stitches. (I knit quite tightly, so the live stitches are very very small.) Best remedy I've worked out is to thread a spare needle through the row I hope to rip back to, so that when I've done the ripping there aren't live stitches just hanging there. Trouble is, that's not the easiest thing for me to do, esp. in this case where the sole is in linen stitch, which I didn't even try.

But! I was 100% successful threading the spare needle through the plain stockinette instep, so I ripped back to there and threaded the needle in the live sole stitches, and didn't drop any!, and tinked back a row to make sure everything was where it belonged, and knitted it up again, and now I am ready to proceed.

Those of you who don't knit can probably not grok how marvelous this is. But those of you who do may be joining me right now in saying Oh, Yay! :-D

Comments

[twistedchick]

With a sole in linen stitch? I'm damn impressed.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I think I remember these socks. Good luck with them, because they seemed like a crazy amount of work to me (but I dislike linen stitch, especially in fine yarn).

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. That makes a huge difference. I knit loosely, so, unless I'm dealing with stitch markers, I just rip back until I'm where I need to be, and then I slip in the needles (and pick up any dropped stitches when I work that row.)

Too bad that doesn't work with lace...