pride goeth before a fall
Saturday night I was knitting in the car on the way south from Chicago, working on the last pattern row of Chart A of Traveling Woman, all excited about having gotten so far, and discovered a dropped stitch and a weird loop about halfway down the pattern.
There was no way I was going to be able to pick it up and fix it, so it looks like I'm going to have to frog back. :(
My first thought was to use a needle and embroidery floss to run an after-the-fact lifeline through the row below and then frog back to it. The fabric looks sufficiently tightly-knit to make this difficult unless I maybe stretch it out on my blocking mats first.
My second thought is to do what one of the ladies at Ravelry group once did: just pull the needle out and unravel down to the first intact row. It just about made me faint watching it done, however (she was knitting a beautiful lacy fuzzy rainbow scarf), and I'm afraid that when trying to get the needle back through the loops I'll drop another stitch and end up unraveling so far I have to start fresh.
Help?
There was no way I was going to be able to pick it up and fix it, so it looks like I'm going to have to frog back. :(
My first thought was to use a needle and embroidery floss to run an after-the-fact lifeline through the row below and then frog back to it. The fabric looks sufficiently tightly-knit to make this difficult unless I maybe stretch it out on my blocking mats first.
My second thought is to do what one of the ladies at Ravelry group once did: just pull the needle out and unravel down to the first intact row. It just about made me faint watching it done, however (she was knitting a beautiful lacy fuzzy rainbow scarf), and I'm afraid that when trying to get the needle back through the loops I'll drop another stitch and end up unraveling so far I have to start fresh.
Help?