It isn't unusual to have someone post a photo like those found in this post on any one of the chat rooms I follow. For instance, this is a sleeve one knitter made and asked if we could see a mistake. I'll put the same question to you. Do you see any problems on this sleeve? I've enlarged it so that you can take a good look.
I think the knitter hoped we wouldn't find anything; unfortunately, her fellow knitters are anything if not brutally honest. A number of people responded that, yes, there is a mistake in the fifth cable from the top of the photo (each cable creates a small oblong circle down the center of the sleeve) or the seventh from the bottom. That particular circle has two extra rows in it making that cable bigger than the rest and distorting the cable below it as well. The challenge for the knitter is whether she should take out that last one third of the sleeve and redo it or hope the receiver won't notice it. What would you do? (I'd take it out because it would always be there, I'd know it and that mistake would be the only thing I see whenever I look at the sweater [I know it is one of my things]). Fellow knitters expressed their own opinions ranging from ones similiar to mine about fixing the error to others saying the receiver, a non-knitter, more than likely would never notice the mistake. In the end, the knitter didn't post what she intended to do, but she certainly received a good deal of feedback.
Or someone posts a picture of this object:
Within moments a fellow knitter will say something like: Yes, this is a sewing bodkin used to string elastic in sewn items; my grandmother had several and I inherited one. There will pursue discussions about what else the bodkin can be used to do, almost always somehow related to a craft. For the bodkin the most notable use is it's great to sew up very chunky yarn, which is really quite obvious because of its design. Having said that I am not convinced I would have come up with that on my own if I should ever be given a sewing bodkin. If that does happen I will know exactly what to do with it now (if I remember that I do know :-} ).
Finally it is not unusual to see a post like this: Can anyone identify this stitch? And yes, even though I tried to improve the picture quality of this photo, they often are this degree of clarity.
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What ensues is a number of suggestions/guesses about what it could be, with a very reasoned post about why it cannot be that. Followed by more guesses and more rebuttals and then someone from halfway around the world posts she made a swatch with a photo including directions on how to knit it. The two swatches look exactly the same. That is quite an investment of time to answer a simple question. The posts then stop all speculation and the discussion ends.
I know knitters aren't the only people who are so supportive of one another even if they don't know who they are helping. But week after week this group reminds me of their generosity. It's nice to be in such good company.
I think the knitter hoped we wouldn't find anything; unfortunately, her fellow knitters are anything if not brutally honest. A number of people responded that, yes, there is a mistake in the fifth cable from the top of the photo (each cable creates a small oblong circle down the center of the sleeve) or the seventh from the bottom. That particular circle has two extra rows in it making that cable bigger than the rest and distorting the cable below it as well. The challenge for the knitter is whether she should take out that last one third of the sleeve and redo it or hope the receiver won't notice it. What would you do? (I'd take it out because it would always be there, I'd know it and that mistake would be the only thing I see whenever I look at the sweater [I know it is one of my things]). Fellow knitters expressed their own opinions ranging from ones similiar to mine about fixing the error to others saying the receiver, a non-knitter, more than likely would never notice the mistake. In the end, the knitter didn't post what she intended to do, but she certainly received a good deal of feedback.
Or someone posts a picture of this object:
Within moments a fellow knitter will say something like: Yes, this is a sewing bodkin used to string elastic in sewn items; my grandmother had several and I inherited one. There will pursue discussions about what else the bodkin can be used to do, almost always somehow related to a craft. For the bodkin the most notable use is it's great to sew up very chunky yarn, which is really quite obvious because of its design. Having said that I am not convinced I would have come up with that on my own if I should ever be given a sewing bodkin. If that does happen I will know exactly what to do with it now (if I remember that I do know :-} ).
Finally it is not unusual to see a post like this: Can anyone identify this stitch? And yes, even though I tried to improve the picture quality of this photo, they often are this degree of clarity.
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What ensues is a number of suggestions/guesses about what it could be, with a very reasoned post about why it cannot be that. Followed by more guesses and more rebuttals and then someone from halfway around the world posts she made a swatch with a photo including directions on how to knit it. The two swatches look exactly the same. That is quite an investment of time to answer a simple question. The posts then stop all speculation and the discussion ends.
I know knitters aren't the only people who are so supportive of one another even if they don't know who they are helping. But week after week this group reminds me of their generosity. It's nice to be in such good company.
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