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knitting around raccoons Karlisa 02-17-2008
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Posted by Katherine on February 17, 2008, 5:22 pm
> My son Noah is 3 and I'm beginning to believe that he is part raccoon. =A0=
I'm
> used to his constant, grand scale mischief and messes--the Christmas
> ornaments in the dishwasher, the baby powdered poured throughout the house=
,
> stealing my husband's large box of Valentines chocolates and then eating o=
ne
> bite out of each one, etc. =A0This morning he came close to reducing me to=

> tears. =A0I discovered that he had pulled my knitting needles out of my
> project! The pattern isn't so complicated--YO, K2 tog across--but trying t=
o
> put it back on the needles is proving to be an exasperating experience. =
=A0The
> fabric is so "woodgy" and every stitch seems to want to unravel. =A0When I=
put
> the YO's back on the needles, do I do I pick them up from front to back? =
=A0It
> all looks so hopeless, and I've never dropped this many stitches all at on=
ce
> before! =A0HELP!

Oh, my dear Lisa! You poor baby! First of all, I would advise either
hiding your
knitting until Noah turns 39. If you can't do that, then hide Noah
until that date.
<g>
Seriously, though, if youa re able to pick them up, I think that the
YOs should
be picked up from front to back.
Good luck!
Katherine

Posted by Richard Eney on February 17, 2008, 8:12 pm
>My son Noah is 3 and I'm beginning to believe that he is part raccoon.
I'm used to his constant, grand scale mischief and messes--the Christmas
>ornaments in the dishwasher, the baby powder poured throughout the house,
>stealing my husband's large box of Valentines chocolates and then eating
>one bite out of each one, etc.

Oh, dear. That's beyond inquisitive and I fear into deliberate mischief.
I hope all poisons, medicines, chemicals, and soaps are under literal
lock and key.

> This morning he came close to reducing me to tears.
>I discovered that he had pulled my knitting needles out of my project!
>The pattern isn't so complicated--YO, K2 tog across--but trying to
>put it back on the needles is proving to be an exasperating experience. The
>fabric is so "woodgy" and every stitch seems to want to unravel. When I put
>the YO's back on the needles, do I do I pick them up from front to back? It
>all looks so hopeless, and I've never dropped this many stitches all at once
>before! HELP!

Pick them up any way you can, as fast as you can, even if you end up with
stitches from different rows on the needles. Once they're all caught, you
can work on sorting out which ones are which. Don't worry about direction,
you can always switch how they sit on the needle when you get there on the
next row. Even if it turns out that you have to frog the row you picked
up, you'll have a loop on the needle to frog from. It might even be helpful
to knit one row of simple knitting to anchor it all, then work back slowly.

Eventually, the YO should sit on the needle the same way any stitch would,
with the front 'leg' of the YO angled the same way the front 'leg' of
a k2tog stitch is angled.

Mirjam's idea of hanging up all projects out of reach is good, but I also
remember a ceiling-hung mobile that I thought was out of reach of my
niece. Maybe you could try a cloth bag hung from a hook in the center
of the ceiling, with no furniture near it, reachable only by you standing
on tiptoe on a chair.

=Tamar


Posted by on February 17, 2008, 11:19 pm
On Feb 18, 3:12=A0am, dicc...@radix.net (Richard Eney) wrote:
hoo.com> wrote:
> >My son Noah is 3 and I'm beginning to believe that he is part raccoon. =
=A0
>
> I'm used to his constant, grand scale mischief and messes--the Christmas
>
> >ornaments in the dishwasher, the baby powder poured throughout the house,=

> >stealing my husband's large box of Valentines chocolates and then eating
> >one bite out of each one, etc.
>
> Oh, dear. =A0That's beyond inquisitive and I fear into deliberate mischief=
.
> I hope all poisons, medicines, chemicals, and soaps are under literal
> lock and key.
>
> > This morning he came close to reducing me to tears. =A0
> >I discovered that he had pulled my knitting needles out of my project!
> >The pattern isn't so complicated--YO, K2 tog across--but trying to
> >put it back on the needles is proving to be an exasperating experience. =
=A0The
> >fabric is so "woodgy" and every stitch seems to want to unravel. =A0When =
I put
> >the YO's back on the needles, do I do I pick them up from front to back? =
=A0It
> >all looks so hopeless, and I've never dropped this many stitches all at o=
nce
> >before! =A0HELP!
>
> Pick them up any way you can, as fast as you can, even if you end up with
> stitches from different rows on the needles. =A0Once they're all caught, y=
ou
> can work on sorting out which ones are which. =A0Don't worry about directi=
on,
> you can always switch how they sit on the needle when you get there on the=

> next row. =A0Even if it turns out that you have to frog the row you picked=

> up, you'll have a loop on the needle to frog from. =A0It might even be hel=
pful
> to knit one row of simple knitting to anchor it all, then work back slowly=
.
>
> Eventually, the YO should sit on the needle the same way any stitch would,=

> with the front 'leg' of the YO angled the same way the front 'leg' of
> a k2tog stitch is angled.
>
> Mirjam's idea of hanging up all projects out of reach is good, but I also
> remember a ceiling-hung mobile that I thought was out of reach of my
> niece. =A0Maybe you could try a cloth bag hung from a hook in the center
> of the ceiling, with no furniture near it, reachable only by you standing
> on tiptoe on a chair.
>
> =3DTamar

Tamar i have all my knitting in cloth bags on those Caot hangers
because there isn`t enough floor in my workroon for all things WE all
need ,,,, and i need a chai to get them off the hook [ i have a Broom
stick between the 2 hooks and on this stick i hang the handles of the
cloth bags !!!!! thus i need to lift one side of the broom stick ,to
get to the wool
, i don`t see a cahild doing that. I was more concerned with a chaild
harming himself with a needle ,,, mirjam

Posted by on February 18, 2008, 9:23 am
I just pick up the stitches without worrying about which way they
turn. Perhaps even missing a YO here and there. Then I tink back a
row --maybe even two if a dropped stitch has worked its way farther
down and I can't work it back up in pattern. A bit time consuming,
especially if there are a lot of stitches in the row, but this gets
everything back 'in order' for me.

Posted by Karlisa on February 18, 2008, 3:52 pm

>I just pick up the stitches without worrying about which way they
> turn. Perhaps even missing a YO here and there. Then I tink back a
> row --maybe even two if a dropped stitch has worked its way farther
> down and I can't work it back up in pattern. A bit time consuming,
> especially if there are a lot of stitches in the row, but this gets
> everything back 'in order' for me.

Thanks. That's pretty much what I've begun doing. After my initial shock,
anger and then panic, I started slowly tinking the row, and I'm hoping I'll
make it back to a good row before long.

Thanks for everyone's help! I think Noah's partially curious about knitting
and partially jealous of it when he feels I'm not giving him enough
attention (he's an attention-junkie, too). One day after repeated attempts
to get my attention by climbing on my back while I knitted, he said, "Mommy
doan knitty. I doan like it."

lisa



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