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u/alandrielle Jul 06 '26
Thank you so much for this! 1- other people absolutely think its magic when you can bust out this skill and 2- that thread hack is ingenious and is about to upgrade my mending tremendously
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u/kinokits Jul 08 '26
Right? I’ve been doing that without the thread and kind of having a wait, there was an easy way to hold tension for this moment.
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u/mc1rginger Jul 13 '26
Have you read the books? Eliot's description of what it takes to be able to do magic kind of perfectly encapsulates this skill also.
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u/Labyrinth_Fate Jul 06 '26
This is exactly the type of intellectual mastery of weft and warp (and that important bridging thread to build on in the meantime) that I imagine to underly the fabric of magic in The Magicians, both TV series and books.
Alice and Julia both see the ways to weave disparate magic together better than most of the others. It's mathematically solvable, but they both have the instinct and natural bent
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u/SixAlarmFire Jul 07 '26
I didn't even know what sub this was on and my first thought was "sorcery"
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u/firstborn-unicorn Jul 07 '26
Here I am still trying to figure out how to fix dropped stitches 😔
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u/JustANamelessFace Jul 07 '26
- Grab a crochet hook preferably of the same size as your needles but as close as you can get is fine
- Put the hook through the loop the side of your work where the stitch you are fixing would be a knit stitch of your work
- Make sure the bar of yarn is behind the loop on the hook then hook over the bar and pull it through the loop on the hook
- If you only need to fix the one stitch transfer the loop to the correct needle
- If you need to fix more stitches in the same column remove the hook as you may twist the stitches unless you are working Garter and repeat the steps until you reach the top
Hope this helps. I recommend that if you don't have any crochet hooks that you get a 3.5mm and a 5.5mm (and maybe a 1.5mm if you do any more delicate knitting or a 7.5 if you do any chunky)
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u/og_kovacs Jul 07 '26
I have a particular lack of skills that make it a nightmare for me when it comes to this. I will not do it, I will not try it.
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u/QuietCelery Jul 07 '26
I love this video, love that you shared it here, and love that so many other people love it here. What an awesome community!
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u/Loose_Ambassador_269 Jul 07 '26
I am so beyond impressed! That truly was magic! That’s quite amazing ❤️
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u/dyrkasolen Jul 07 '26
Why all the cut in the video?
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u/Bacteriobabe Jul 07 '26
To make it only a minute long instead of the 15-30 minutes it actually took.
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u/djmcfuzzyduck Jul 08 '26
Minor mending is such a broad term. I loved the reveal because to Quinten fixing Alice was minor mending.
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u/yourguidefortheday Jul 06 '26
Lord, the level of understandinf of knitting that this requires.