Bummer! What mistake usually happens when you are doing multiple cables that cross in different directions? You guessed it: I mis-crossed a cable. Thank goodness it never got on the cover of an international knitting magazine! 😉
I have been very careful (or so I thought) as I have been working on my Eala Bahn. Part of it is because the yarn is so small you really don’t want to rip it out. I found the mis-crossed cable when I was at the same point 8 rows later and went, “Rut Roh!!” So I had to drop down and fix it. Ish.
Many of you may think of Sally and me as interchangeable knitters, but we are not. Our overall skill level, interests and taste are very similar, but we do differ. There are things that I do better and there are things that Surly does better. Sally is really good at dropping down and fixing her knitting. It can be rows and rows back and she seems to magically accomplish this feat.
Sally’s Feather and Fan Shawl from A Gathering of Lace. Sally discovered that she had left out numerous yarnovers several rows back — with hundreds of stitches on the needle, she did not want to rip it out. So, she dropped down and spit-spliced additional length into the rows before “re-knitting” the problem area. Okay, fine. Show off!! She has done many other equally amazing things like that.
Like I said, I simply mis-crossed a cable 8 rows back. It should not be that big of a deal to fix. I was able to do it, but it:
a- it was a PITA
b-it looks like $#*&^^%
c-I was actually pitted out! Or maybe it was just another hot flash…who knows?
In my haste to fix the major boo boo on the exact center back of my Eala Bhan, I neglected to take pictures before or during…but here are the after shots:
This picture shows exactly where the mistake was:
It’s sloppier where I fixed it, but I hope with blocking it isn’t noticeable.
I think part of the reason I made the mistake is because I am cabling without a needle. When you do cables that way, you kind of do the cabling backwards. What I mean is, for a 2×2 left crossing cable, the directions would normally tell you to place 2 sts on cable needle, hold to FRONT, k2, k2 from cable needle — left crossing cable. But instead I take the point of my right needle and go BEHIND the first 2 sts, so I can slip the next 2 onto the RH needle. The 1st 2 sts slide off the LH needle and then get put back back onto the left needle. Even though I have been cabling sans needle for years, I think my reptilian brain still cables the old way!
I need to pay a lot more attention.
PS — Thanks for all of your nice comments about the new deck. That is the good news. The bad news is that we are going to need much bigger buns nicer (= expensive!!) deck furniture!!
