I FINALLY sewed in my ends (there are just two, beginning and end) on Bellini Bubbles because I’m taking pictures with my sister tomorrow. Nothing like the power of a deadline! But do you see what made me gasp?
See the unsecured bent petal of that middle flower? I’m going to guess I dropped a stitch somewhere above it, because…see the two loose stitch columns above the unsecured petal? Clearly there’s a column of stitches missing above that unsecured petal. There’s no stitch missing from the flower above, so it happened somewhere between the two flowers.
I hooked up the column with a crochet hook: The loose pink loop was the first to get picked up on my hook. Then I hooked up the running thread *between* those two loose stitch columns. That takes up the slack that made those two stitch columns become loose when the in-between stitch dropped down, so it’s firming up the green stockinette area, as well as rescuing my loose loop.
To secure this, I put a piece of yarn through the last loop at the top of the column (right before the next flower), pulled it to the back of the work, and fastened it there. Whew! And now I have four ends sewn in, instead of the original two.
There’s a little gap between the first 2 petals of the next flower because now there’s a stitch column where there wasn’t one when that flower was made. That’s a small price to pay for securing my flower petal. All better.
Bellini Bubbles is nearly done with test knitting, and I am seeing some stunning colors. Assigned pooling is so much fun! I’m planning to publish this next week, May 21. Get your yarn ready!
In other news, Chickalong Day 6 finds me waiting for my wet blocking to dry. Stuffing and seaming up next! I have a forever bag of poly fiberfill from some project in the distant past, so I’m ready.
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