knitting around raccoons

I'm sorry Lisa, that is so frustrating. The worst my youngest ever did that way was to take the needle our from an Aran I was knitting and I admit I did howl because I was such an inexperienced knitter at that time!

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they do explain how the stitches should look when you have picked themup again. I hope it helps.

Lisa hang some High coat hangers on the wall , and put your work there , and/ or close it in a cupboard , any way you should take care so that he won`t touch it anymore since he might by mistake hurt himself with a needle ,,,, Ps are all your Suckets safety covered ??? mirjam

Oh, my dear Lisa! You poor baby! First of all, I would advise either hiding your knitting until Noah turns 39. If you can't do that, then hide Noah until that date.

Seriously, though, if youa re able to pick them up, I think that the YOs should be picked up from front to back. Good luck! Katherine

I'm used to his constant, grand scale mischief and messes--the Christmas

Oh, dear. That's beyond inquisitive and I fear into deliberate mischief. I hope all poisons, medicines, chemicals, and soaps are under literal lock and key.

Pick them up any way you can, as fast as you can, even if you end up with stitches from different rows on the needles. Once they're all caught, you can work on sorting out which ones are which. Don't worry about direction, you can always switch how they sit on the needle when you get there on the next row. Even if it turns out that you have to frog the row you picked up, you'll have a loop on the needle to frog from. It might even be helpful to knit one row of simple knitting to anchor it all, then work back slowly.

Eventually, the YO should sit on the needle the same way any stitch would, with the front 'leg' of the YO angled the same way the front 'leg' of a k2tog stitch is angled.

Mirjam's idea of hanging up all projects out of reach is good, but I also remember a ceiling-hung mobile that I thought was out of reach of my niece. Maybe you could try a cloth bag hung from a hook in the center of the ceiling, with no furniture near it, reachable only by you standing on tiptoe on a chair.

=Tamar

Tamar i have all my knitting in cloth bags on those Caot hangers because there isn`t enough floor in my workroon for all things WE all need ,,,, and i need a chai to get them off the hook [ i have a Broom stick between the 2 hooks and on this stick i hang the handles of the cloth bags !!!!! thus i need to lift one side of the broom stick ,to get to the wool , i don`t see a cahild doing that. I was more concerned with a chaild harming himself with a needle ,,, mirjam

I just pick up the stitches without worrying about which way they turn. Perhaps even missing a YO here and there. Then I tink back a row --maybe even two if a dropped stitch has worked its way farther down and I can't work it back up in pattern. A bit time consuming, especially if there are a lot of stitches in the row, but this gets everything back 'in order' for me.

Lisa hang some High coat hangers on the wall , and put your work there , and/ or close it in a cupboard , any way you should take care so that he won`t touch it anymore since he might by mistake hurt himself with a needle ,,,, Ps are all your Suckets safety covered ??? mirjam

Well, they're covered, but Raccoon Boy knows how to remove the covers. He seems to have moved on from this stage, though. That was more of an issue at age 2.

lisa

Thanks. That's pretty much what I've begun doing. After my initial shock, anger and then panic, I started slowly tinking the row, and I'm hoping I'll make it back to a good row before long.

Thanks for everyone's help! I think Noah's partially curious about knitting and partially jealous of it when he feels I'm not giving him enough attention (he's an attention-junkie, too). One day after repeated attempts to get my attention by climbing on my back while I knitted, he said, "Mommy doan knitty. I doan like it."

lisa

KNIT him a Toy anumal and tell him you are making it for HIM ,,, mirjam

If he is three, it may be too young to teach him, but I remember learning to knit when I was 5-maybe. I would patiently sit and put the yarn through and around, and out. And I started with say 10 stitches and ended up with so many, there was no room on the 10 inch needles, and I could never finger out where they came from!

If he is too young to teach knitting, maybe he would like corking (what we called cat tails or spool knitting when I was little.) Anyway, that is my suggestion. Barb

Ps are all your Suckets safety

What's a sucket, please?

Wendy A KFIC

If he is three, it may be too young to teach him, but I remember learning to knit when I was 5-maybe. I would patiently sit and put the yarn through and around, and out. And I started with say 10 stitches and ended up with so many, there was no room on the 10 inch needles, and I could never finger out where they came from!

If he is too young to teach knitting, maybe he would like corking (what we called cat tails or spool knitting when I was little.) Anyway, that is my suggestion. Barb

Thanks, Barb, that's an excellent suggestion! He likes doing anything mechanical and when he's trying to figure out how to make something go or take something apart, he can be keenly focused. He's a young 3, having only just turned 3 last month, but I may buy him one of those little knitting spools and see how he does. If he's not ready for it now, he may be in a few more months.

lisa

You could teach him finger knitting. There are a couple of videos on YouTube with kids demonstrating it. That way there'are no pieces to lose, no small sharp stick to jab with, etc. The procedure ins't 100% identical to standard knitting, but it produces a visible product quickly, which is a big advantage at that age. You can also teach him finger-chaining to make the basic crochet chain.

=Tamar