Check-In Post July 6th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

GAH!

I managed another 32 rows in the end, but halfway through I dropped a stitch in one of the blackberry stitch panels and it started unravelling. The one place I couldn't just pick up the stitches and fix the problem. I had to unpick about 5 rows stitch by stitch before I could stop it unravelling.

[pensnest]

Argh! How tiresome. Five rows stitch by stitch sounds like a big road-bump.

[badly_knitted]

It seriously was, especially undoing the purl three together, which is nearly impossible to do without making things worse.

[pensnest]

Safety lines, she said, nodding wisely.

I even put safety lines in my Reyna, which is pretty simple knitting. It saves on frustration!

[badly_knitted]

I've never heard of safety lines. Explain please?

[pensnest]

A safety line is a thin yarn - I use a fine knitting cotton thread - which you put through all the stitches of one row of knitting, and leave there while you continue. That way, if you have to frog the knitting, you can safely rip it back to the safety lines row, because all the stitches are caught on the cotton thread, and you can pick them up easily from there. You can (if you need to) indicate on your pattern where you have put a safety line - really useful if you have a complicated pattern. It's best done on a plain/WS row, assuming you have a plain row in your knitting, either knit or purl.

I use a darning needle to thread my safety line through the loops - I think it's also possible to knit it in as you go, but I prefer just to do it after I've knitted or purled the row. You don't want to catch your knitting yarn, and don't forget to leave a long tail at either end!

[medievalrosalie]

Ahhh What a great idea!

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, what a clever idea!

Not sure it would work on this design since there are no plain knit or purl rows, but it's definitely something to consider for future projects.

Thanks!

[smallhobbit]

How very annoying!

[badly_knitted]

It really was, I almost abandoned the rest of the knitting once I'd unpicked far enough back, because my back and arms were hurting, but I pushed on.

[m_findlow]

Oh no! That's so annoying! But I guess better to unravel now whilst your still knitting than when you go to wear it!

[badly_knitted]

Definitely! Hopefully I can avoid any further disasters though.

[wiseheart]

Oh, dear! Good luck then!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[medievalrosalie]

Oh that sounds just so annoyingly frustrating! At least it was 5 rows and not 50.

[badly_knitted]

True, it could have been a lot worse!