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Susan Cairns
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I still think my response in the "help" section would fix this wrap. I realize you have knit a long way and really hate to rip back, but I did recently on a scarf I was making - in fact started over FOUR times, but am finally happy with the end result. I worked on this thing for over a week, and was to the point that I hated to pick it up at all. Now it is finished and I love it.
2. The only time I use a slip as if to knit is when a designer calls for it. All that does is turn your yarn around... nothing more that I can think of. By the way, I like your approach on the short rows of not slipping the stitches for the first two rows... this makes perfect sense to me. I'll try it on my next pair of socks to see how it looks.
One final thing that I have learned and will pass on to you. NO MATTER WHAT OTHER KNITTERS SAY, if you find something that works for YOU, and YOU think it makes the finished product look better USE IT!!! Many knitters are in a BIG RUT! They have ALWAYS done something a certain way... or THIS IS THE way I was taught to do it... or a dozen other excuses. Do YOUR knitting the way YOU want to do it. THERE ARE NO RULES!!! --S
Thank you so for the complement! I have only been knitting four years, but jumped in head first, and just try to be helpful whenever I can. --S
Couches? and is Sofa type things? Cool, I'm so there! Ohhhh, Cornwall...give me a minute to imagine your lovely weather right now...humid and buggy and "monsoonish" here.
The knitting youngest daughter (they both knit, but see photo) is in marching band and they go overseas somewhere to play & perform and be obnoxious tourists, dec 2010/jan 2011 is UK. Different destination each year.
Husband and I hope to chaperone if funds allow..
Yes, Naples, FL by way of Michigan I'm afraid, we get so homesick for our friends and family, but love the rest. We followed our jobs down here and there are much worse places to land Don't miss the snow (much) and we welcome many guests eacb year escaping the cold, which is always alot of fun and they are ALWAYS a welcome sight at the "Cairns' Inn by the Gulf", lol. We are 2 miles from the Gulf Coast and beaches and I have constant sand in the rugs and basically everywhere to prove it.
I was asked to teach socks to knitters who've never tried socks this season--nothing like the blind leading the blind! LOL
Oh, and here's "Knitting Nelly" aka Morgan...I call this one "Got Gauge??"
and this, "Gotta...finish...byyy....Christ...mas..."
which is all I could snap without intense protest.
So, yes, I know of NO ONE who can do socks like ravelry members and....it is good. Explains my awe.
Did I mention my Father in Law is from Glasgow and goes back every few years to do, what else, GOLF!