tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post4539034823875627425..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-65980849664175129062014-12-05T13:46:33.546+00:002014-12-05T13:46:33.546+00:00I've never had luck with the picking up from t...I've never had luck with the picking up from the chain and started crocheting on the needle a long time ago. Not sure who gave me the idea, but it works better for me. Hope the Pass passes.Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-90371203798816382272014-12-05T13:35:50.355+00:002014-12-05T13:35:50.355+00:00I don't know if she invented the crochet on th...I don't know if she invented the crochet on the needle technique, but I believe that it was Sally Melville who taught me how. I'm actually comfortable with crocheting into the chain. One of the secrets is to use a much bigger hook so that the loops are looser. Another is to crochet it without stopping (somehow when the work is interrupted, the chain gets twisted, and the back loop "disappears").<br /><br />Good luck today. Hope it all went as you hoped it would!Ellennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-88237139156118988692014-12-05T13:00:08.531+00:002014-12-05T13:00:08.531+00:00Good luck at the as Astley Ainslie today - tis onl...Good luck at the as Astley Ainslie today - tis only a hop and skip from my house - and if you had time you could nip into be inspired fibres on marchmont road on your way home! Knitlasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694849211711608460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-2076433078601295382014-12-05T12:54:55.312+00:002014-12-05T12:54:55.312+00:00Count me in the "can't find the stitch&qu...Count me in the "can't find the stitch" group, and I'm so relieved not to be the only one.<br /><br />Good luck with your husband's test this afternoon, Jean. I guess this is one where we hope he fails in order to pass. <br /><br /> And what do people do who must wait and do not knit? I feel smug as I work on my sock in waiting rooms of all sorts; don't you?kayTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-46098724208204061652014-12-05T11:56:50.290+00:002014-12-05T11:56:50.290+00:00I have tried the crochet-and-pick-up-a-loop method...I have tried the crochet-and-pick-up-a-loop method and never yet managed to get it to unzip. I even found an article in a magazine that drew it and explained it in perfect detail, and still it wouldn't work.<br />I still think it is a good way of doing the job, and have just resigned myself to undoing each stitch as an individual. Come to think of it, I always had trouble identifying the right bit of thread on the stitched-up tops of dog food sacks. Same stitch.jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.com