As promised, knitting content. Not just knitting content, but
extremely pissed off knitter knitting content. Can I first tell you
that I have 27 rows completed? That's not a typo. Twenty-seven rows. In three days.
The Ornaghi Filati Merino Oro I'm using is giving me trouble. I cast on with Addi Turbos - fast right? The problem is the join. The yarn is so fine that each stitch lands in the tiny space between the needle and the cable and gets stuck. This made me fight the yarn and have to pick every stitch over the canyon. Plus it made me really cranky.
So, I switched to an Inox circular. Same problem. Additionally, the stitches weren't sliding over the needles like they
usually do. I believe this is my own problem as I was gripping the
needles a little too tightly.
I had a pair of bamboo jump needles and while the join was fine (big sigh) the bamboo grabbed the yarn so tightly, I still wasn't having any fun. Tired of struggling with this, yesterday I asked Hub if he wanted to drive into town and get another set of needles. I figured I'd go for some 10" straights and see if that solved my problem. It did - yippee!!
Today, I decided I was going to get a chunk done on this shawl. I'm knitting along and getting the hang of the pattern and all is well. Until I reach over to pull more yarn out of the ball in the middle of a row. I hear your collective intake of breath. Yes. I. Did. Pulled 10 stitches off the needles and into oblivion. I tried to grab the stitches and then unknit back to where they were (about 2 rows). I can't make head nor tail of these stitches.
The thing is, I was just thinking, "I'll get 30 rows on the needles and then thread a life line." Okay, I'm gritting my teeth and telling myself "it's only 27 rows ... it's only 27 rows ..." Yeah, that's going to work.
I had a pair of bamboo jump needles and while the join was fine (big sigh) the bamboo grabbed the yarn so tightly, I still wasn't having any fun. Tired of struggling with this, yesterday I asked Hub if he wanted to drive into town and get another set of needles. I figured I'd go for some 10" straights and see if that solved my problem. It did - yippee!!
Today, I decided I was going to get a chunk done on this shawl. I'm knitting along and getting the hang of the pattern and all is well. Until I reach over to pull more yarn out of the ball in the middle of a row. I hear your collective intake of breath. Yes. I. Did. Pulled 10 stitches off the needles and into oblivion. I tried to grab the stitches and then unknit back to where they were (about 2 rows). I can't make head nor tail of these stitches.
The thing is, I was just thinking, "I'll get 30 rows on the needles and then thread a life line." Okay, I'm gritting my teeth and telling myself "it's only 27 rows ... it's only 27 rows ..." Yeah, that's going to work.
Cr-p!
Posted by: Elysbeth | March 30, 2008 at 06:09 PM