Tag: silliness

Colorwork Socks—Tinking

(Also known as ‘tinking’.)
Unknitting each stitch to get back to my mistake.

Last night I decided to finish my ‘round’ (really the second halves of two socks) even though it was late. I wanted to have less than ten rounds of colorwork to go.

Hubris. I was tired and didn’t count properly and missed two stitches of the Opal (the lighter color). So this morning I’m ‘tinking’ (tink is knit backward) to my mistake point to fix it. I could have done duplicate stitch afterwards, but that wouldn’t feel the same to me. But un-floating all of these floats is a very good motivator to be more careful & alert from now on!

Fiber carefully, or share my fate! 🧟‍♀️

 

Status• Posted on by Life, Fiber, Trans

Urban Aran Hat, My Errata

I’m very careful about reading patterns & charts, because I’m both a process and product knitter and hooker, and I want the final product to look right. I even swatch (although I only wash swatches for sweaters—unwashed swatching is good enough for hats and shawls).

So I just spent a merry half an hour counting stitches on the left needle and consulting the chart of the hat I’m working on, and I could find no way to make it work except by starting with a purl instead of a knit in moss stitch, and this made no sense (as the previous row both started and ended on the correct stitch, and there were the correct number of stitches from the stitch marker).

I decide to start with a purl, pick up my circs, and see I’d already done the first knit stitch. To lock in that stitch marker, as you do.

:facepalm: