Sunday, February 10, 2008

Aarrrrggggghhhhhhh! Alternatively: Thank Heavens for Lifelines

So yesterday I finally got off my tush and deided to play with my Options needles. So I transfered my Adamas shawl from the Addis I had been using (and hating) to my options. And everything was going swimmingly. The stitches were moving much more easily over the needle and join, the points were pointer and just lovely. Once I finished the pattern repeat I placed a lifeline (my first of this shawl) and put the shawl down for the day.

This morning I worked on the shawl for a bit and got halfway through a repeat. All was well. After dinner I sat down again and started to knit. And then something weird happened. The stitches became hard to manipulate, the the ones on the row below the one I was working were all bunched up and odd. It took me a couple minutes to figure out what way wrong. I realized it when I saw a whisp of unspun silk. My yarn had ripped. It had caught on something, and that something was the join of the options. Dude. Not good. I ripped back to the lifeline, tightened up the joins (which I had neglected to do) and starting picking up stitches. I just finished.

Now I'm going to have to join the broken edges - to Eunny's blog I go. I really hope this doesn't happen again, cause I really don't want to give up my Options. Although, if it does there's a simple solution. I'll just go buy some fixed circs from KnitPicks.

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