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I like charts when I’m knitting lace patterns. Once you’ve done a few rows, it’s easy to spot any mistakes since your knitting doesn’t match the image. Usually. For some reason this time, I really struggled to get going with this straightforward pattern. Unpicking lace stitch-by-stitch is a challenge. The yarnover loops often mess with your stitch counts. I think that’s what happened to me here. The best thing to do? Begin again. I’ve now done five repeats of the pattern and it’s looking quite splendid.
This is Magic Waves by Kieran Foley knitted in Manos del Uruguay Lace yarn.
*Tink means to undo your knitting stitch-by-stitch (it is literally the word knit backwards).
**Frog is a word adopted by knitters to define ripping out row after row of knitting (‘rip-it, rip it’).