When I

When I misplace my marked-up copy of my lace charts at the halfway point of a pattern row should I view that as a sign that I'm supposed to

PUT DOWN THE KNITTING!!??

Or should I just make a fresh copy and keep after it?

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Wooly
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For me, when I make the same crocheting mistake three times in a row for the same stitch, that's a sign for me to put the crocheting aside and do something else. *grin* It certainly saves wear and tear on the yarn!

David

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David R. Sky

Step away from the knitting! (At least for 5 minutes).

Smiles

Hesira

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hesira

I think this is the knitting muse telling you that you need a break. She always knows what is best. Coggie

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coggietm

Leave it alone for long enough to have a drink - coffee, tea, or something stronger!

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:15:19 GMT, Wooly spewed forth :

Well, losing the charts was a mixed signal. I went to dinner (pizza buffet with my toothless wonder, aka the 8yo who has dropped 4 baby teeth in as many days after refusing to lose any at all for three years since he lost ONE in kindergarten), came back, printed a fresh copy of my charts page and made one perfect right-side row followed by the "purl back" row.

I just put the work down. I'm about 50 stitches in to the last row of the wide border chart and something has me flummoxed. When this happened last night it turned out that I had knitted the wrong row from the chart for a good 80 stitches. I had to drop back *shudder* and reknit a good section of the previous pattern row before I was back in business.

Hopefully tonight's work halt is merely due to my late-night inability to read my lace.

Blearily yours...

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I generally find that if that happens it means that I need to stop, have a good tidy up (in the process finding the chart usually!!) a nice hot drink (or cold if summer) and then start again refreshed So I guess step away from the knitting; do something else and have another go. But not after about 10.30 at night; too easy to make mistakes when tired, takes too long to put right! Love & sympathetic higs Christine

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Christine in Kent, Garden of

"Wooly" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I think we should be more clever to listen to things like that, but some of us, (like me ;) , would have to listen more than knit!!LOL!

That means: I start with one copy, but after finished work, several others pops up here and there.

But I have learned ONE thing: IF I do the same knitting mistake on and on, it's time for something: strong coffee, or ..., or BED! The last is the most dissapointing, that means: NO HOPE for patternknitting today!

AUD ;-)

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Aud

That's just the worst! Many times I motivate myself through evening chores with the promise of knitting, and then it gets too late and/or I get too tired and have to go to bed without knitting at all. :( :(

Joy

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Joy

....or chocolate....or all of the above....

Michelle

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Eastern Edge

Chocolate, yes, that works, too.

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

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