the cable that was not
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006so, it started out as this:
Luckily, i had read about fixing screwed-up cables recently on Knitter’s Review’s forum and knew what to do, or at least had an inkling. And no, it wasn’t frog.
So, i removed the 6 stitches of the cable from the needles like so:
The picture shows only 4 stitches free, and that would have worked, i think, but to be safe i dropped all six stitches of the cable down to the offending row. Keep in mind that my moniker is NOT LittleMissPatient for good reason. I did not want to have to redo this TOO many times.
i was a bit surprised at just how long the yarn was. I also had placed a small needle in the stitches below the evil row before dropping anything. I then attempted to re-knit the stitches using the small needle and ended up with extra yarn at the end of my cable, so i went to one size LARGER than i was knitting and it worked perfectly.
The cable was a C4B (slip two stitches to a cable needle and hold to the back, K2, K2 from cable needle) so i had to finagle around the yarn loops at the back a bit. I think this would have been a perfect opportunity to knit WITHOUT a cable needle. I typically prefer to work with the cable needle, but i think in this case, without would have been smoother. Oh well, next time.
In any case, now i have this:
and i am feeling pretty darn smug.
