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Step 1: Take a waste piece of yarn and thread it through a tapestry or darning needle.
\nStep 2: At the beginning of a new lace repeat, thread the waste yarn through the stitches currently on your main needle.<\/p>\n
Once you have completed a few repeats of your lace pattern, remove the lifeline and re-insert it further up.<\/p>\n
If you make a mistake, just remove your knitting needle and rip out the stitches until you reach the lifeline. The lifeline will keep you from pulling out anymore stitches than required.<\/p>\n
Example of a Lifeline in a lace project<\/small> music in video is from demo 2008 by (Latchxe9 Swing<\/a>) \/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n [sidebar alias=”after-post” ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lifeline is a piece of waste yarn that allows you to rip back your stitches when you make a mistake. Since it can be difficult to rip out stitches when making mistakes in lace knitting, a lifeline will allow you to start at the beginning of a repeat, rather than start all over. Well in knitting we don’t have the luxury of a 50\/50 when we make a mistake. We could phone a friend or ask some people at the local yarn store how to fix it. But when it comes to lace, most people have no idea what to do when they mess up.<\/p>\n Thankfully we have our own lifeline to save the day!<\/p>\n UPDATE: My wife just told me he’s not dead and the show is still on. This is what happens when you don’t have a TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"stitch-attributes":[],"pattern-repeat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"stitch-attributes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stitch-attributes?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"pattern-repeat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yarnist.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pattern-repeat?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAnyway, if you got in trouble on that show you had the chance to save yourself with a lifeline. You could poll the audience, phone a friend, or eliminate two of your four choices.<\/p>\n