Life's a Stitch

You’ve dropped a stitch. Panic or calm? Depends upon the behaviour of your yarn. I used to panic immediately, but now I know there are some yarns whose stitches will patiently wait for you to get back to them for picking up. Brown Sheep’s Lambs Pride worsted is a pleasure in that regard. Also Briggs and Little, as one of my knitting instructors said referring to B&L, “those stitches will stand at attention and wait for you to pick them up.” I’ve just started a Caryn’s Kerchief (from Foxyknits), made from Koigu KPPM. It’s my first Koigu experience and now I know what the fuss is all about. It is so well behaved, and good-looking, too:

Then there are those yarns that jump off the needles and run all the way home before you can even catch your breath. Some of those drapy, liquidy synthetics. Take one of those stitches off the needle and it melts before your very eyes. The combination of those with slippery Addi needles equals two steps forward and one step back.