Two Steps Forward…
I am starting to remember why I never get farther than a few rows when I knit with laceweight. Last night I sat down to knit a few rows of Seascape. Literally the first row I knit had problems. I was off by one stitch. After staring at my knitting for 15 minutes, I finally took a closer look at the chart I was using. Although the chart looked symmetrical, there were 14 knit stitches on one side and 13 knit stitches on the other side of the pattern stitches. Okay. I took a deep breath and moved on. Two rows later, I had an extra stitch! At that point I was broken for the night. When I looked at my knitting, everything looked fine. There was no reason for this stitch! ::sigh:: I am hoping that looking at the shawl with new eyes tonight will help.
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I feel your pain! I’ve learned to improvise on the fly when stuff like that happens. Usually I can tell before I get to the end if I am going to have too many or too few stitches. Then I’ll lay my knitting down and slowly and carefully count the stitches to make sure. If I have too many I’ll just do a K2tog at then…..if one or two few then I’ll make 1 at the end. Lucky for me with lace you can’t really tell much on those improv stitches.
JessieLynn, I do the same thing! In the whole scheme of things, a stitch here or there is not going to make a diff. Just think of it as a design element…;0)
I really hate frogging and tinking, too!
Darla - Detroit
Silverarrowknits,
I’ve got a number of rows like that in my pattern…a real pain in the butt! You might be doing the exact same yo, dec combinations, but there are different numbers of stitches between them! Really requires paying attention!
Hang in there, I’ve found that once I’ve completed the first repeat, things seem to go along a bit smoother. Hope it’s the same for you.
Diane
Happens to all, you know!
I usually just frog the darn thing if there is a really noticeable mistake, or if I notice it without looking real close. If I can’t notice it, and I’m supposed to be the “expert” I don’t think anyone else is going to.
Once, I noticed the mistake when I was finishing one of the last rows of a square shawl, and I really needed to finish it because it was a gift, so I just ignored it.
After I gave the gift, everyone was saying how beautiful and perfect it was, so I tried to find the mistake. It took forever to find!
So if it’s not going to ruin the rest of the repeats, just turn a blind eye
Monica