Kick ASS! Thanks to the amazing Rebecca Love, I now have the coolest new trick in my bag!

Day before yesterday, our receptionist here at work, Penny, had brought in the baby blanket she’s working on to show me. She had dropped a stitch in one of the purl sections between the cables, and was talking about frogging the blanket back a couple of rows to the one with the dropped stitch in it. We then discovered another dropped stitch several rows prior to the first dropped stitch, but in the same section. I told her that there HAD to be a way to put all the live stitches except the ones in that section on holders and just undo that section and redo it. I didn’t know how, but there had to be a way to do it. Penny looked at me like I was totally cracked.

Fast forward to that night. I’m reading through the knitlist emails and find one from Rebecca. I always check out people’s blogs and pages when they post the urls, ‘cos it’s always interesting to see what others are working on, and I might learn something new, and some of these people are FUNNY. There are a couple of knitting bloggers that I read regularly now just because they write so well and make me laugh. I love that. So anyway. I went to check out Rebecca’s page, and lo and behold find this picture. I KNEW it was possible! Now I had proof!

I sent Rebecca an email asking if she could tell me how it was done, or point me in the direction of a book or web page or article or whatever that could tell me. I got mail back from her yesterday morning explaining in detail how it’s done. SWEET! She’s SO incredibly nice, and her instructions were totally clear.

I got to work and found that Penny had only torn out one row, but was just about to rip out the rest of them. I asked her if I could try the new thing, and she handed the blanket over. In between putting new computers together I managed to get the live stitches onto two holders and get the section with the dropped stitches unravelled. Over the course of the afternoon I got them all reknit AND IT WORKED! Penny was so excited, as was I . This has got to be the coolest knitting trick of all time.

As far as progress goes… Not much. It’s been a very busy few days. I’m almost done with the wide burgundy stripe on the hoodie, and have started the bust shaping on the tank, but haven’t touched the shawl or the sleeves in a couple of days. Tonight, though I will make progress on both of those. Have to. One or the other of those projects is slated to be worn to the opera on Saturday night. So I better get crackin’, no?

The best collective term I’ve heard in ages appeared at the top of someone’s post to the knitlist this morning: KNITTERATI. Love it.

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