I went to my knitting group today. I have to admit that the last half hour of knitting, I was getting very tired. I had been working on a right handed knitting project, when for no apparent reason I started knitting left handed. Then back to right handed. Then left. Then right. Then left. Then something did not look right or was that left.
I was knitting on 16 inch circular needles with double stranded yarn. So I tinked a few stitches and thought I had corrected the problem. This happened 4 more times. Then I decided to tink back until everything looked right no matter how many rows had to go. It turns out that it was exactly 3 rows.
For those of you that do not knit, tinking which is knit spelled backwards with an “ing” for grammar. It is not a very difficult task. However when you add one or more extra yarns it becomes a mini nightmare. I had 180 stitches of nightmare.
How am I going to solve this problem you might ask. It is very simple. I have made markers to remind me whether a project is right handed or left-handed. So I am going around the house to all my works in progress and mark them all. This way I will always stop at no more of one row of tinking. At the very worst I will have to stop assembling dog pillows to make more of these markers.
Also I think I should stop knitting when I get tired. Just sit back and enjoy the talk. No tinking involved.
I would also love to hear how other people have solved this problem.
Then it might just be nap time.
