Ravelympics, Day 0
Feb. 12th, 2010 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
houseelfBrazil is walking into the stadium on tv, and I've already finished the easiest part of my Ravelympics entries. They have an event this time around for frogging, and my perpetually-unfinished scarf is no more. Not even short rows make garter stitch interesting enough for me to knit an entire scarf, and the yarn (Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted) was too expensive for me to just throw it out.
For the frogging itself, I used my ballwinder. The as-yet-unknit yarn was in a center pull ball. I used the winder to rewind it so that the outsize was now on the inside, and then pulled the needle out of the scarf and kept going. A little yanking was necessary to take care of places where stitches had fuzzed together, but all in all I only lost about six inches of yarn. No way was I unpicking a Russian join.
I don't count this event as finished just yet. Frogging it was the easy part. Now (well, not now, but next) I have to unkink it.
For the frogging itself, I used my ballwinder. The as-yet-unknit yarn was in a center pull ball. I used the winder to rewind it so that the outsize was now on the inside, and then pulled the needle out of the scarf and kept going. A little yanking was necessary to take care of places where stitches had fuzzed together, but all in all I only lost about six inches of yarn. No way was I unpicking a Russian join.
I don't count this event as finished just yet. Frogging it was the easy part. Now (well, not now, but next) I have to unkink it.