A lifeline is a way to unravel your knitting safely. It’s an excellent tool for rescuing your knitting when you’ve made a mistake. Lifelines works like this: using a tapestry needle, insert a strand of yarn into a row of stitches. This strand of yarn is your “lifeline.” Then continue knitting as normal. If you make a mistake, unravel your knitting to the lifeline, which is holding ... keep reading >>
Fixing Mistakes
How to Fix Tight Knitting
When you’re first starting out as a knitter, you’re excited, nervous and kind of happy! Knitting is fun, after all! But sometimes the nervous side takes over and you start gripping your needles and pulling at the yarn. You’re nervous your stitches will fall off, so you’re being extra careful. The problem is this: the knitting becomes so tight that you can barely get the needles ... keep reading >>
How to Fix Extra Stitches in Knitting
At some point, you might look down at your knitting and think, “Whoa! Why do I have so many stitches on my needle?” You’ve got more stitches than you cast on! You, my friend, have accidentally added extra stitches to your work. It happens to most beginner knitters, so don’t beat yourself up about it. In this post, we'll go over how the extra stitches got there in the first ... keep reading >>
How to Fix a Dropped Stitch
At some point you'll need to fix a dropped stitch. It’s an unfortunate fact of knitting, as certain as death and taxes. You’ll recognise a dropped stitch by a long tear in your fabric and a wayward stitch at the bottom. When this happens, don’t panic! As frightening as a dropped stitch looks – so sad and helpless, like a child fallen into a well! – it’s nothing to fret ... keep reading >>
How to Untwist a Twisted Stitch
Sometimes your stitches fall off your needle, and as you frantically try to cram them back on, you notice that they’re sitting funny. The needle doesn’t go into them smoothly, and the actual stitch looks wonky. When this happens, it’s likely that your stitches are twisted. Thankfully, this has an easy fix. The first step is recognising whether your stitch is, in fact, twisted. The second ... keep reading >>
How to Unravel Knitting the Right Way
Unravelling your knitting, is a frustrating but necessary rite of passage for every knitter. Knitting mistakes are bound to happen. Sometimes the only way forward is to unravel the knitting and start again. It can be painful to watch all those beautiful stitches disappear with a simple tug. But once you’ve ripped back your knitting, a trickier situation arises: now that your ... keep reading >>
