A Twist In The Tail 2025 Part 2

A Twist In The Tail 2025 Part 2

I have to confess that I have had a loss of temper. The Yarn was pretty difficult to Unravel. It got caught on itself and tangled to the point I actually threw it across the room.

Eventually I managed to get it Undone but not without having to sacrifice some of it because it was so Frayed it was unusable.

Rethink

I decided to have a complete Rethink of how to handle this. I still wanted to work in the round. Therefore I thought I would do a Row of Stocking Stitch before trying to join. I also had dropped the number of Stitches down from 201 to 181. I hoped this would make it easier to spot any Twists.

Black Yarn

My plan worked. It was much easier to join and handle. I made quicker progress.

Join New Yarn

I got to the point where I had finished all the Black and Grey Yarn and could move on to the Blue. At this point I think I should mention that originally I hadn’t been planning to do Bands of Colour or Stripes. 

I have Knitted it this way because when on the previous attempt I came to change colour and realised because I was doing it in the Round the Ends would be at the wrong end.

Mistake

I am not sure what happened here. I had to remove the newly added blue and go back to the Grey. I am not sure if I had dropped or Knitted half a Stitch but it definitely wasn’t right. 

I fixed it the best I could but there still seemed to be excess Yarn at the front. I trimmed this and hoped it wouldn’t affect the strength. I then Readded the Blue Yarn and continued.