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April 7, 2008
thing 2
O hai, the Paisley Shawl is being haunted by Karl Rove.
Example 1: HOLYFUCKINGSHIT, there's a snag in it. Let me just say that it's WAY too far away to fix by dropping down to it. I don't know what to do. I've poked and prodded at it and have determined that it's not a live stitch, so if I do nothing it's not going to get worse unless it catches on something. It's not long enough to weave in, and I am loath to tie a knot in it. Any ideas? (Click on the picture - the bigger photo shows the loop really clearly.)
Example 2: Last night I was plugging away on the last bloody chart repeat of the Boteh Chart and noticed that in one of the middle sections, I had seven stitches instead of eight. I poked and prodded and couldn't find where I'd screwed up, so I said "screw it" and strategically eliminated a k2tog.
About six rows later, I decided to put on my dorktastic Petzl headlamp. I was knitting along and right there in plain sight, about six rows back, was a dropped stitch. Just hanging there. I nearly had a heart attack. Strangely, instead of panicking, I hallooed for Nathan and asked him to bring me a sock needle (How cute is it that he knew what I wanted and where I keep them?) and then a Manhattan.
Anyway, the spirit of Elizabeth Zimmerman must have been watching over me. The bit where I picked up the dropped stitch isn't gorgeous, but there's no way anyone will ever see it unless they've got a microscope.
This thing is going to be the death of me.
Comments
My sympathies. Can you not weave it in? It looks long enough. If you thread your needle into the knitting where you want to weave in, then thread the loop through the needle. Would that work?
Posted by: SweetP at April 7, 2008 1:43 PM
Karl Rove is haunting my Kiri Shawl! He has got to go down. In other words, I feel your pain.
Posted by: grace at April 7, 2008 2:31 PM
Yeah, I'd cut that big ol' loop and weave it in, and then have myself a big ol' drink.
Having recently discovered that I dropped a stitch 20 rows back (and having to rip, AUGH), I totally feel your pain.
Posted by: Emily at April 7, 2008 7:14 PM
Ouch. Karl Rove needs to get the hell away from your shawl.
Hmmm. It doesn't look long enough to thread the whole loop onto a needle, but I wouldn't want to cut it. You could use a crochet hook to hook both strands of the loop and weave the loop into stitches you already made - like you are duplicate-stitches. Just keep hooking it through stitches until you've run out of loop. It'll probably pull out a little later, but it probably won't be noticeable.
If you want it more secure (but possibly more noticeable), when you're hooking it through the stitches, pull it through the plies (split the stitch on purpose) on some stitches.
Good luck, I'm sure it'll be gorgeous. It's just a little loop. You can pretend it's an individual fashion statement if anyone notices it.
Posted by: Big Alice at April 9, 2008 11:26 AM
Thanks for the suggestions, ladies! I apologize for not answering you in e-mail, but there's something wonky going on with my comment notification. I'm getting Grace's comments, but nobody else's!
I think what I'm going to wind up doing with the snag is trying to readjust the surrounding stitches while I'm blocking the finished piece. If that doesn't work, I'm going to try weaving the loop in. Will keep you posted. :)
Posted by: Kate at April 10, 2008 3:59 PM