The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Fleecewife on July 20, 2014, 06:12:28 pm
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I wasted a whole load of time today because I did some of my stitch number calculations when my brain was switched off. This meant the welt on my new jumper would have been lopsided and probably a bit twisted, because I had done too many increases in the first half. To Mr F's horror, I unknitted :knit: as much of the row as I had done, about 100 or so stitches. I couldn't bear to carry on knowing the finished article would look a mess.
Would you have unknitted or botched?
So, having sorted out my maths and realised what a prat I am, I sat outside in the sun to get a few rows in :knit: After a while I smelt burning. Oh, I thought, Rob next door has burned a saucepan dry. I went into the house just to check it wasn't me.....all sweet smelling and burn free.
So I carried on knitting :knit: only to find after a while that my yarn had a break in it ??? When I looked, the two ends had been burned through. :idea: - the yarn was sitting in a stainless steel bowl, in the sunshine. Whilst the bowl was totally cool, it must have concentrated the rays back onto the yarn where it left the ball and burned it through, like when you set fire to something with a magnifying glass in the sun. Well, that's never happened to me before :o. It was only laziness too, as I couldn't be bothered to empty out my yarn bowl, which is pottery and would have been fine ::) but then I would have missed the magic ;D
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I would definitely undone what was wrong but probably not for a few rows, telling myself it would be ok and then not being able to live with it :)
Wow, burning of wool, thats a new one on me. Sounds like some sort of sacrificial offering ;)
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I would unpick as well. I know from experience that, if I leave a mistake in there, I can't help myself telling everyone about it and pointing it out. Much easier to get rid of it.
FW, are you sure it wasn't just the speed of your knitting needles that struck a spark and lit your wool? ;)
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I am doing a tunisian crochet football scarf and I can see two mistakes in my last stripe....I am still contemplating what to do as I continue knitting...no freak occurrences...yet.
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I would unpick as well. I know from experience that, if I leave a mistake in there, I can't help myself telling everyone about it and pointing it out. Much easier to get rid of it.
FW, are you sure it wasn't just the speed of your knitting needles that struck a spark and lit your wool? ;)
MGM - I knit like a 6 yo, distinctly ponderously. Nor was it the speed of my brain giving off sparks, as that is also in slow motion today :tired: Just magic - or maybe a parabolic reflector 8) Actually, if it had been the speed of my needles then they would have caught fire too as they're wooden ones :knit:
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Most strange :knit:
I always undo mistakes cos they natter me if I leave them .
I put a solar jar on the stainless tray in the greenhouse to catch some rays. :sunshine: maybe I'd been better using a stainless salad bowl.
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I'd have unknitted or dropped the panel and reknitted with a crochet hook, whichever would be quickest and give a neat outcome. Lopsided I would have been able to live with, but unintentionally twisted, never! lol
I keep my yarn in a project bag, hung on the arm of my chair or over my wrist. Very convenient but never gives magical smoke signals :thinking:
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[quote author=Mad Goatwoman of Madeley link=topic=48803.msg434913#msg434913
FW, are you sure it wasn't just the speed of your knitting needles that struck a spark and lit your wool? ;)
MGM - I knit like a 6 yo, distinctly ponderously. Nor was it the speed of my brain giving off sparks, as that is also in slow motion today :tired: Just magic - or maybe a parabolic reflector 8) Actually, if it had been the speed of my needles then they would have caught fire too as they're wooden ones :knit:
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