Tangled Up in Bobbles
November 23rd, 2009 | View Comments
So I have been knitting.
If by “knitting” you mean knitting and re-knitting the same section of sweater over and over again. I am now officially a working stiff (of the hellish-commuting/lots-of-overtime variety), which means on a good day I’ll get to sneak maybe 20 minutes of knitting before I pass out on the couch. Anything more complicated than stockinette is now completely beyond me.
I reached the yoke part of the Tangled Yoke Cardigan, attached the sleeves, and continued working merrily along in stockinette. Until I discovered that I’d missed the decreases on the row where I attached the sleeves. Frog. Re-knit.
Missed the first round of yoke decreases. Frog. Re-knit.
Got to the cable pattern and miscounted the number of stitches between the 5-in-1 increases. Frog. Re-knit.
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles1.jpg)
Missed the second set of 5-in-1 increases. Frog. Re-knit. Re-knit wrong, frog and re-knit again. It’s still wrong, so I frog and re-knit again, this time successfully.
I finish the cable pattern, and the next round of yoke decreases, and feel all proud of myself that I finally finished the hard part and can go back to zoning out on stockinette.
And then I looked more carefully. Check out the picture above again. Notice something?
Here’s a hint:
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles2.jpg)
There were four dots on the chart that I thought were purl stitches. Turns out they were bobbles.
I debated just leaving it, but I know myself and it would forever bother me if I didn’t have the bobbles. But I also couldn’t bring myself to frog that section again. I did a quick Google search and fortunately turned up this MIA bobble tutorial that served as the basis for my repair.
Step 1: Using the same size needle, pick up the stitch that should have been bobbled, but wasn’t.
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles3.jpg)
Step 2: Join yarn and knit into the front, back, and front of the stitch (a 3-in-1 increase) to start the bobble.
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles4.jpg)
Step 3: Turn, p3, turn again, sl 1, k2tog, psso to finish off the bobble.
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles5.jpg)
Step 4: Break yarn and pull the loop through. Sew the bobble down to the stitch above the one you picked up in Step 1. Weave in all ends.
![Tangled Yoke Cardigan](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/tangledyoke-bobbles6.jpg)
Bobblicious. Onto the stockinette!
CogKnition posted this on November 23rd, 2009 @ 12:46am in Tutorials, Unfinished Objects | Permalink to "Tangled Up in Bobbles"
Oh, I feel your pain on the frog, reknit, frog, reknit merry go round!!
Nice bobble fix, though
Those few rows of the cable section took me over a month to knit, frog and reknit again and again. It didn’t help that I was knitting a larger size either.
I like the bobble fix though, very neat.