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Things we talk about in this episode:
Slow Motion Correcting a Dropped Stitch
Slow Motion Weaving Ends
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Two additional options for ‘flagging’ other people’s project notes for your future use:
When you do favorite another’s project, you will see it in the right panel at the very bottom when looking at the main pattern page – i.e. your favorite projects of this pattern will show there, instead of ‘other patterns by the designer’. [Oh… Rav might have removed this feature, I don’t see it anymore!]
AND this is super helpful to others as well:
In the project page with the helpful notes – you can mark them as ‘Helpful’ – then others can search “Helpful projects” and find this particular project (and you can search this as well in the future!) This action is what causes a little life preserver icon in the projects display. You’ll find the ‘are these notes helpful?’ feature at the bottom of a project pages notes. Click that and then you can highlight the specific text in the notes that are helpful!
Knitpicks and Knitters Pride/Knit Pro cables are interchangeable…
I do recall that my friend with Lykke and Knitpicks needles was also able to use the cables interchangeably!
Thank you, Danelle. I was going to suggest the “mark as helpful” feature as well. Once you mark project notes as helpful, you will have the option to highlight the helpful parts. Projects marked as helpful will show up in the right column of your project page under related favorites. (I have not been able to get my “marked as helpful” projects to show up in my Ravelry Queue, only my project pages.)
Knitpicks and Knitters Pride/Knit Pro cables are interchangeable…
I do recall that my friend with Lykke and Knitpicks needles was also able to use the cables interchangeably!
Steeking: Horrifying, yet thrilling! I recently steeked and my challenges were applying a steek to a sweater pattern, not a cardigan pattern. (I steeked Flax with Knit Picks Wool of The Andes; I wanted affordable practice before I attempted a Fair Isle cardi.) I wish I had participated in a “steek-a-long,” which has been hosted by several designers promoting their patterns. The problems with these steek-a-longs was that the camera angles could not get in close enough to show which stitches to reinforce on each side of the cut line. Staci, you have superior camera work in your tutorials. Perhaps a steek-a-long would be something to consider.
To the person who submitted the steeking question: Look up needle-felted steeks. I have seen examples on the Knit & Chat Facebook page where crochet reinforcements failed and the knitter used a felting needle to secure the loose stitches (along with the rest of the stitches near the cut line) with great success. This will only work on non-superwash wool. Good luck!