[Nfb-krafters-korner] fixing knitted dropped stitches

[Ramona Walhof]

For garter stitch dropped stitch, try using a small chrochet hook.  weave it 
back through the rows until you get to the dropped stitch. Then you need to 
pull your dropped stitch through the yarn where it should have been,looping 
it over the new loop you will make in each row as you go.   first on one 
side, then the other.  Of course, this is easier if your knitting is not too 
tight.  And you can feel it better with larger yarn and larger needles.  If 
you want to practice, make a pot holder or dish cloth and deliberately drop 
a stitch or two, not right beside each other.  You can pick up more than one 
side by side, but better to start with just one.  If you are making socks or 
something really fine, that's not the place to practice unless you have more 
patience than I do. I do not like to rip out and pick up whole rows, so I 
have made myself learn to pick up stitches in patterns, even when I am using 
more than one color and dragging the yarn across the back of the pattern. 
Try not to stretch the loops in the stitches you are picking up more than 
necessary, but you have more flexability than it first appears.  You get the 
best fixes, if you don't have to go too far, but acrylic yarn will often 
pull into place very nicely if you wash your garment when it is all done.  I 
don't have much experience with cotton. But you should be fine with wool.

Ramona

Ramona
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] fixing knitted dropped stitches


> Cathy,
> Fixing dropped stitches:
>
> Knit 1 row, Purl 1 row- stockinette is easy to pick up the stitches 
> dropped
> several rows back.  Just remember it may not look/feel as even as your
> other rows.  This is where blocking comes in.
>
> Knit every row-garter stitch is much tougher and I really do not have an
> easy solution for that one.  Well the easy solution is pull your needles
> out, rip back down to at least 1 or 2 rows below the dropped stitch.  Pick
> your stitches up[it does help using a smaller needle then what you are 
> using
> and pick up those stitches.  You need patients here as you need to  either
> count while you are picking up or keep feeling after you pick up to be 
> sure
> you didn't miss any other stitches.  Now before you knit this first 
> picked
> up row, if you used smaller needles for the pick up, put each stitch back 
> on
> the correct size needles.  You may have to twist them so they are going 
> in
> the correct direction or you can twist them when you begin knitting as you
> will feel if they are on your needles going in the correct direction.
>
> This is how I do it.  I am sure there might be other ways.
>
> I am trying to fit another  class in  basket making and  finding it a bit
> difficult with my schedule.  Maybe I can squeeze in a  picking up dropped
> stitches in knitting before the middle of December.  If  not I promise to 
> do it
> in January.
>
> Joyce  Kane
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> Blindhands at AOL.com
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