I have a question that I couldn’t find an answer to after a lot of Googling-- this may also be an inherently confusing question, so hold onto your socks.
I am working on a garment that has a stitch pattern containing twisted stitches. In the stitch pattern, stitches are twisted on every row; i.e., in the same places you do a k1tbl on Row 1 knitting straight, you do a p1tbl on Row 2.
Anyway, that I can do, no problem. However, my problem arises when I realize that I have made a mistake on the pattern a row or two back, such as omitting an eyelet or whatever, and I need to unknit back to the error. When I do this, I am consistently doing something wrong in unknitting the twisted stitches. Even though I can’t tell (after a lot of practice unknitting) what I am doing differently each time I unknit back a row or two, my twisted stitches are coming out differently every time. I’ve either lost the twist, or re-twisted, or I’ve done it correctly.
Meanwhile, this is driving me nuts, because I can find a lot of advice on how to make twisted stitches, but none on how to unknit twisted stitches.
Any help would be appreciated! [I]Really[/I] appreciated…
The only thing I can think of is to unknit them from the back to the front rather than inserting the needle front to back. That should unknit them so you can retwist them when you reknit them. (say that 5 times fast :lol:)
Even if you don’t get them unknit correctly every time, you can flip them on the needle before you knit them to get them in the proper direction.
Just make sure that when it comes time to reknit them, that they are oriented on the needle such that the leading leg of the stitch comes from the front of your needle - so your stitch is straddling the needle with it’s first leg in front and it’s last leg in back… I know there is a better way to say this!
If you tink by putting your LH needle through stitch below then lifting off needle, you will have problems with the twisted ones. Thry this: drop stitch off needle, gently tug working wool out of the stitch, and put the stitch onto left needle correctly oriented. If this is tricky, knit a twisted stitch, watching carefully, then unknit it immediately, this should give you the idea.
Sarag
Thanks for the tips! Good tips. I will have a few hours at my knitting group tonight to try these out, so I’ll be back soon with the results…