What is the best way to fix a lace pattern?

YES! Betty, make yourself a lifeline. That SOUNDS like I'm being facetious, but I am serious. Use a contrasting colour of yarn, get a sewing/quilting/darning needle and pull it through all the stitches on the row before the offending row. Now RIP back to the lifeline. Insert your needle (knitting) back into the stitches on your lifeline. VIOLA! HTH, Noreen

WHOA!!!!!!!!! I've always hated ripping 'cause I'd invariably end up ripping even MORE rows 'cause of losing stitches in the one I try to pick back up!

This is INGENIOUS and will save me TONS of trouble!!!!!!!! f

Thanks for the lesson!!! Eve :o)

PS, Noreen....

Feeling better? Hope so! Eve :o)

You're welcome. It's one my mom taught me aeons ago! GLAD to share! Noreen

The brrrr cold weather today in TN is making me feel a 'little' re-lapsey, but YES, I am, and thank YOU! Noreen

Yes, it's cold here too -- extremely so, in fact.

So glad to hear you're on the mend! Eve :o)

On 18 Feb 2006 10:31:39 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@excite.com spewed forth :

What Noreen said.

Also put in STITCH MARKERS every second pattern repeat and know how many stitches you should have between markers. You'll get into a rhythm and will twig to any irregularities.

Of course if you're a fool like me you're knitting a pattern with a variable stitch count that also "borrows" stitches from previous and subsequent repeats so there's no telling where you FUBARd :)

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

GOOD point, Wooly, esp. on LACE! Noreen bowing to the goddess, lol!

oh, stella, get ready, you might have a visitor who needs to 'get-warm', lol! noreen

Thanks Noreen and Wooly!! Now the task seems much less daunting. What great advice :)

BB

Can't speak for Wooly, but from me, you're entirely welcome :) Noreen (ps, I also tried to forward our replies to your personal email..... so you'd get the answer ASAP!)

BB , does it REALY bother you ? if is for your use , why not embroider 2 tiny flowers or beads over it? nowadys , contemporary works aren`t that Symetrical ,,, mirjam

In complicated patters i use a counter or make 4 lines in my copybook and than a 5th diagonal over it .. mirjam

The only way I have ever managed to get it right is to knit backwards. And if it's too far back, then I pull out until the row it's on, and then pick up the stitches while knitting backwards. Sounds a bit odd, but what I mean is that instead of picking up the stitches from thin air, I pull the yarn out while picking up the stitch, so I pull out to one row less than where I want to be.

But then I don't think I've 500 stitches to do it with!

I found the other day when I was using eyelash yarn I also had to do it that way, as it was impossible to identify each stitch.

Catherine