Knit Addict

Those shiny new cotton socks I just finished?  I got them out the other morning to wear them for the second time, and something about them caught my eye.  See it?

I split the yarn on that stitch. Had one strand holding everything together.  I’ll give the yarn this - it’s tough stuff because I already wore these one day to work and then to teach.  Luckily it’s on the bottom of the foot, so I’m not going to get too excited about where I am in the color sequence to fix it.

First thing I did was cut off a foot, foot and a half of yarn and thread a fairly sharp tapestry needle.  Then I figured out where to start to just duplicate stitch a few stitches right over the existing yarn.

You can see the split stitch right above the point of the needle.  All I did was follow the same path the blue yarn took while knitting the sock.

Did that right over the broken area and for a couple of stitches further.

Turned it inside out, wove in the ends, and I have a fixed sock.

My other “Well Duh” today had to do with the Quad Socks.  I’m just twisting one stitch over two to get the cabley look.  The nice part is since I’m knitting in the round it’s easy to twist them every 5 rows, which gives me the nice rounded look I wanted.

My “DUH”?  I had been putting my right needle tip into the third stitch, dropping the first two off the left needle, picking them back up from behind, then putting the third stitch in place first on the left needle and knitting.

Holy crap, can I make that a little more confusing?  Whatever.  The much much much easier way I should have though of a long time ago?  Knit stitch 3.  Then knit stitches 1 and 2 and move on.

I had thought about doing this before, but was always a bit thrown by where to hold the yarn - in front or behind.  Once I thought about it a bit, of course it has to be in front.  That way the stitch just drifts across the sock like it’s supposed to.

So I’m not always the brightest bulb.  Sooner or later I usually figure it out though….