Does Anyone

see a mistake here? Of course not; I fixed it! With a lot of help from "Other Sally" (there are two Sallies-one who knits at the shop and one who knits and works at the shop. Those of us who didn't know her last name just shout Other Sally and she knows who we mean) at knit night last night. She had recently had the same problem and I benefited from her experience.
Now I can knit on. DH asked me if I learned anything from fixing the error--- which took almost all of last night's session. Why yes, I did. I learned to NEVER make this mistake again!

Does Anyone

See a mistake here?
I do. One of the cables goes over instead of under. DH says it's on the back of the sweater and no one will notice. But I know it's there and it will bug me. And I suspect younger daughter would notice it too and it will be---if I EVER finish it---her sweater.

But not to worry; I have a theory and a plan. I THINK that I can put the stitches on either side of the eight stitches involved on holders and then just un-knit those eight stitches, and re-knit them correctly. I think it might work.

I will take it with me to knit night tomorrow so that if I lose patience or get really, really upset, someone will stop me from throwing the whole thing across the shop or from ripping the whole thing back.

I hope.

Lessons Learned

Lesson #1: The Universe does NOT care what I say or do. There is no bad Karma. (I still hope there is good Karma) How do I know this? Take a look at the repaired stocking and look at yesterday's before picture. Jan, our knitting guru and GENIUS, repaired it so well that the repair is very close to invisible. Yay!!! I do not have to knit my half-millionth and one(th) stocking. Whew....


Lesson #2: How to repair a large hole. I watched very carefully as Jan used sewing thread (less visible) rather than yarn to weave through all the loops. She then pulled the two ends of the broken yarn to the inside, tied them, and sewed them down to the inside fabric so that they will never come loose again. She also had a second method she would have used if this hadn't worked: pull out a bit more of the knitting at the bottom of the hole, knit however many rows necessary on those few stitches, and then use the kitchener stitch to graft the top and bottom of the hole together. Wow! I would never have thought of that.

It's good to know very clever people who are generous enough to want to share their skills!

AND, I was tagged by Calicobebop, so now I have to do some thinking in order to write that post....that gives me something to do while I'm knitting.