Day 179 - How to pick up/correct lost stitches.

September 25th, 2012

How to pick up/correct lost stitches.

There you are knitting along and suddenly your stitch count doesn't match up. Fear not. You can correct this easily.

You Will Need

Knitted piece you are working on

Knitting needles you are using

Crochet hook in a smaller size

Step One:

Work over to where the stitch dropped. Have needles positioned for one needles to hold all stitches in row before drop and other needle to hold all stitches after drop.

Step Two:

For Knitting - insert crochet hook in the front, grab yarn meant for that row, pull through to front. 

Step Three:

For purl - insert crochet hook in the back, grab yarn meant for that row, pull through to back.

Step Four:

Repeat until you are back to top/row you are working on. Slip last stitch from crochet hook onto knitting needle. TA-DA you are done.