The organized knitter - handmade knitting needle cases. Knitting Daily. Indigirl: stylish knits, modern life- welcome. Redshirt Knitting. Knit and tonic. You know how it is when a song is in your head. It makes it worse when you can't recall the lyrics in total.
But your brain hums it as you go through your day and at some point you feel like subjecting yourself to "It's a Small World" to break the monotony. But enough of that. I'm going to tell you of the epic dream I had last night. Maybe you can help me make sense of it. The song that has been in my head is "Stardust" as sung by Nat King Cole. So, I'm in a bedroom and laying on a big bed with lots of white sheets, pillows and a fluffy duvet (much like the one I sleep in every night).
"Sometimes I wonder, how I spendThe lonely nightsDreaming of a song . . . " And I sit up, lean over to him, look into his eyes and join him in song (with a really good Julie Andrews voice): ". . . Then, two good looking dark-skinned men wearing Calvin Klein white underwear come behind us and lean through the open windows, reach over to Mullen, and begin to rub his shoulders. But I can't find my car. ". . . All is not lost. All is not lost Yesterday I got a letter from Sue. Sue wrote: I'm knitting Teva Durham's Cabled Riding Jacket. Everything was zipping along until I noticed that six rows back I crossed one cable out of many in the wrong direction...
I could unravel those six rows back to that cable, but I'm wondering if there is a way to just drop those 5 stitches back to that point, recross the cable in the right direction, and fix things. Even as I write, I feel that it's hopeless, but some niggling little sprite tells me not to give up yet. That sprite would be me, though I've never been called niggling before, at least not to my face. The Proper way. 1. All cables leaning right, and there, six rows back, a six stitch cable deliberately leaning left with shameless disregard for order or The Way That Things Should Be. 2. Begin frogging back, being sure to leave uninvolved stitches on the needles. 3. 4. And slide them onto the third dpn in their new, spiritually gratifying, correct order. 5. 6. 7.
(Ps. ??? Technickety: How to unvent a simple cable. I had a heap of messages asking where the cable for Jeff's glove came from. It's a fairly generic multi-strand cable; called a "Saxon Braid" (thanks, Purly White!). I see Wendy at wendyknits has used it for a sweater, and I'm sure it's to be found in stitch dictionaries. That said, being able to read an existing cable and knowing how to reconstruct it is a very useful skill. I'm not suggesting, of course, that the following be used in any way that takes credit away from a designer of a garment - rather, this is a reference for understanding how a simple cable works and how to write a chart.
The actual process is far more intuitive than what follows, but I've written each step out, just for documentation's sake. ***I should say my intention here isn't to be patronizing at all; I'm sure most of you have been doing this for a long time without this kind of manic detail. According to my definition, a "simple cable": Step by step 9) Add your WS row with strands as established. See? TECHknitting™