Sock tinking sympathy please - Page 2

jpenguin · 01-16-2009, 09:35 PM

I don't know

if this will work for you but has for me when I have goofed on a part of one of my socks, the last pair 3 times!

A more experience knitter taught me to take a DPN one size down from what I was working on & pick up the stitches the row below where I needed to get back to. Do this on both sides if you are working on 2 circs. Then just frog

it back to the DPN and whala! pick up at that point & start knitting again.

Hope this will help & keep you from tinking over 300 stitches.

luvmykid28 · 01-17-2009, 04:04 AM

Originally Posted by Sunshine's Mom

Oh, I so feel your pain! I'm currently working on a sock (for me. Which will become part of a pair, I swear!) and have goofed on the pattern twice. I've already frogged the whole thing twice. I'm no good at tinking socks. So when I goofed this time I said to myself "Self. These are for you. It's not worth it and it looks kind of cool. Leave it alone." So I did. I'm so delusional and in my world. But, it's okay, they know me there.

You made me chuckle. I usually end up frogging anyway. Tinking is way to involved and frustrating

Cirrus · 01-17-2009, 05:07 PM

You are not alone on this one. Sometimes I just put the project down, even for a few days, and I feel fresh and more enthused about the tinking when I get back to it. I'm knitting either way--going forward or backward--and even if the repair doesn't absolutely have to be made, I'll be happier with the finished product after the error is fixed.

knitpurlgurl · 01-17-2009, 05:43 PM

OMG, I've been there! It's so disheartening and frustrating!

tokmom · 01-18-2009, 07:16 AM

Add me to the tinking/frogging group. I'm sorry. It stinks to find that stitch about 2 inches down.

gingerbread · 01-18-2009, 03:49 PM

I think all of us that do socks have tinked and we do feel your pain. Right now I am trying my hardest to make toe up. I have tinked the yarn to death. Thank goodness it is a yarn to just practice with. Well now it is anyways.

Hope you have fixed the mistake and are on your way to be finished the second sock.

rox_on2 · 01-18-2009, 05:31 PM

I feel ya! I am the queen of tink!!
A good knitter is a good tinker!

Roxy