Correcting Knitting Errors

Sometimes you will have knit a few rows of a pattern before realising you have dropped a stitch. One method to correct this error is to unravel your work until you get to the dropped stitch then pick it up on the needle and continue with your knitting. An even simpler and less time consuming method, however, is to use a crochet hook to pick up that dropped stitch and carefully knit it up the rows until it reaches the rest of the work. As long as you pay attention, you can make the stitches either purl or knit as required. For picking up a dropped purl stitch, I recommend working from the back of the work since you can knit the stitch at the back and will create a purl stitch on the front.

Incomplete Stitches

To correct an incomplete or partial stitch is not really difficult. If you notice the partial stitch (the needle is pushed through the strands and only one or more strand is knit) before you have completed the row, you can either have dropped a stitch. One method to correct this error is to unravel your Sometimes you will have knit a few rows of a pattern before realising you unravel the portion that is done and move back to fix the stitch.

If you have knit a couple of rows, it is simple to move to that stitch and drop it until you reach the problem stitch. Then, using that crochet hook, pick it up and work back up the rows until you reach the needle holding the rest of your work. You can use this method to correct you knit stitch as well. For instance, if you have knit a stitch that you should have purled or purled a stitch that you should have knit, you can correct them as well using the crochet hook instead of unravelling the work several rows. Just drop the stitch, taking it down to the right row, fix it and knit it back up.

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