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Dear Jan,

As exasperating as it was at the time, I’m glad you spotted that mis-twisted cable before I entered my gansey in the MN State Fair.  Not that I expect a ribbon, but if that were the reason I don’t get one, what an avoidable disappointment.

I sat down today to fix it.  I snipped the bar at the center of the cable in the row of knitting immediately above the cable twist and unraveled a couple of stitches in each direction.

Mounting the cable stitches on a darning needle with the proper stitch, I then grafted them to the row above.   Here it is before and after tidying the graft up.

Threading the ends to the wrong side, I then set about making as invisible a repair as I could.  With yarn of this weight, splitting into plies and weaving ends in separately in as many directions as possible helps a lot with invisibility.

Shaving the ends off rather than a sharp snip and then a little massaging with the fingers results in the ends nearly melting into the background.  See the difference in the close up - the top yarn was snipped and the bottom yarn was kind of feathered with the scissors in a shaving motion.  Which do you think will be most noticeable?

Ta da! Finished!  …wait, what?  Dang, you didn’t tell me about the mis-twisted cable on the other side of the tree.

Yes, kiddens, the second time isn’t very exciting, but it did go a lot faster, didn’t it?

Love,

Ellen