The Knitters Thread

mandy_moo_1

hi, i'm going to unpick my first jumper attempt that i made for OH, as its gone rather baggy and it looks like we could both get in it!!

i only made it a couple of months ago, but i just wondered if there was a knack to unpicking it, and is there anything i should do before i use the wool again?

ie should i wash the jumper THEN unpick it, or do i unpick it and THEN wash the wool when i've wound it back into balls?

and is there a right way and a wrong way to unpick it?

jeez....i've only just mastered knitting again after 20 odd yrs, and now i got to learn how to unpick all my hard work lol!!

i've knitted 2 more jumpers after this one, so i know now where i went wrong with the mahoosive one.....should have checked my tension....duh!!!

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my mum did this to straighten curly unpicked wool:

Wind round and round the back of a kitchen chair, then tie a few loops of wool to keep the skein intact. Wash very gently and roll in a towel then hang to dry with some weight on the bottom of the loop

Errata

kittie wrote: »

my mum did this to straighten curly unpicked wool:

Wind round and round the back of a kitchen chair, then tie a few loops of wool to keep the skein intact. Wash very gently and roll in a towel then hang to dry with some weight on the bottom of the loop

I've also done it that way, except I spin dry and then tumble dry. It comes up like new.

pigpen

i knit it straight from one garment to the other

OrkneyStar

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mandy_moo_1

pigpen wrote: »

i knit it straight from one garment to the other

how do you do that? just unravel as you go? sounds a heck of a lot easier than unpicking it and re-rolling it back into balls!

La_escocesa

blueberrypie wrote: »

It depends on what kind of edge you want. On a piece of stocking-stitch, you would usually slip the first stitch knit-wise on every row, regardless of whether the rest of the row was k or p. Some knitters would also knit the last stitch, even on the purl rows. On the pattern you've linked to, I'd slip the first stitch of every row knit-wise. In general, if a pattern wants you to slip a stitch purl-wise, it will say so - i.e. "slip the stitch" is taken to mean do it knit-wise.

Thanks blueberrypie. That makes sense. Think i might be trying to make things more complicated

pigpen

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

how do you do that? just unravel as you go? sounds a heck of a lot easier than unpicking it and re-rolling it back into balls!

yep, unravel enough for a couple of rows at a time.

pigpen

Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!

Blanket number 2 completed.. onto cardy number 1 for the baby and the chunky sweater for DD4... I race myself to see which I can finish first.

maman

Hello ladies (I think it's all ladies??). You may remember me asking advice when I started my Aran cushion a couple of weeks ago. Well it's all knitted, all I need to do now is make it up and add tassels to the corners. I've thoroughly enjoyed doing it and will be starting my next project soon.

Question(s) Do I need to press it before making up and if so how? What sort of stitch should I use for sewing the seams? TIA