Recognizing When You’ve Accidentally Slipped a Stitch
Whoops! You're knitting along and you see a strange, stretched-out stitch right in the middle of your work.
Plus, you have a weird, floating piece of yarn across the back.
It's okay - what happened is that you slipped a stitch while you were knitting - it accidentally got transferred from the left-hand needle to the right.
You usually can't see this kind of mistake unless you are using large or light-colored yarn, but for the exacting knitters among you, here's how to recognize and fix it:
As you can see in the video, one clue that alerts you to the accidentally-slipped stitch is that the slipped stitch is mounted backwards on the needle.
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- How To Fix A Dropped Knit Stitch 10 Rows Down
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Liat Gat is the founder and video knitting expert at KnitFreedom.com. She gets great joy out of supporting and encouraging students through instructive videos and blog posts.
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As always, just what I need when I need it – thank you so much! Oh, and KnitPurlGirl sent me – not that I’m not already here. =)
Purling backwards??!! I HAVE to learn how to do THAT!!!
Here’s the video for purling backwards! :)
I had to do this several times today whilst tinking back on a shawlette I screwed up. As I was removing stitches, yep, some of them wanted to just jump off and disappear into oblivious freedom. SO, this is a great tutorial for fixes!
Ohey, I’m heading over to get your e-book now!
Cya in YooToob!
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Woo hoo! I love it when the tips that I post help someone right away! Thanks for getting my e-book – I hope you absolutely love it!
Hugs!