I sat and knit with a friend today; she is a knitting genius!
First, when we knit together a month or so ago she or her genius knitting sister (oh sucky memory…) mentioned putting a life line in the project. The idea is that if something gets so screwed up it can’t be fixed you just rip out to the life line and start over, but not so over that you have to recreate the entire project. This has been AMAZING and I’ve utilized it a lot as my current scarf has 16 rows and I just make all kinds of mistakes especially at night which is when I generally have time to knit.
Second, today she explained how to un-knit back to a mistake in a way that I actually FINALLY made the connection and could do it myself. Breakthrough moment!! It’s not just putting the needle into the hole below, which I can manage to totally muck up, but it’s finding the holes that have the active yarn going through them. This then works for not only the single stitches, but all the yarn together stuff as well. It was like a light bulb went off. Yay! A whole new era of knitting hopefully is opening up here
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