How to Fix common Knitting Mistakes

Mistakes in knitting happen to all of us, regardless of whether we are new to knitting or have many years of knitting experience. A brief careless moment and an annoying error has already happened. But what to do?

In this blog post we would like to show you some solutions to the most common knitting mistakes.

Correct color mistakes in the knitting project

Beautiful patterns in different colors look particularly beautiful in knitting projects. But what to do if you miss the color change or have knitted in a different way, or have used the wrong color?

Don’t worry, with the following tricks you can easily correct such errors with little effort.

  1.  Controlled drop stitch

A controlled drop stitch is often recommended for color pattern errors. There is a reason for this, because with this technique you don’t have to unravel the whole work, just the one column of meshes into which the error has crept. For this method, do the following: Continue knitting to the stitch just above the mistake. Now let the stitch fall off the knitting needle and rib down to the faulty stitch. Now take a crochet hook to help, push the thread of the faulty stitch backwards and work in the stitch with the correct color. Here it may be that the thread tension is too strong. Then work the stitches up again, paying attention to the course of the pattern so that you don’t make another mistake right away. This technique doesn’t work with intarsia knitting, as there are no tension threads to pick up. But the following trick might help you.

  1. Embroider stitches

This technique can be used for any type of colored knit, is quick to use, does not require unraveling and can be used even if you only notice the mistake after you have cast off the work. That sounds great. To do this, you simply have to take a piece of thread in the color to be corrected and thread it into a wool needle. Then simply embroider the stitch and correct the annoying mistake.

Too many stitches increased

While knitting, it often happens that we increase without even realizing it. Especially on the edges of the stitch, it can happen that you increase unnoticed. After rounds of 20 stitches, there are suddenly 23 on your knitting needle. If this mistake isn’t noticed too late, the best way to correct it is to simply knit back. However, if the error is several rows back, it is easiest to separate the work up to the error. To do this, take a new knitting needle. All stitches in a row are now threaded onto this new knitting needle. It starts with the edge stitch. However, you only pierce one half of the stitch and place this half of the stitch on the new knitting needle, along the entire row that has already been knitted. Once all the stitches have been threaded onto the new knitting needle, the previous knitting needle is pulled out of the work and the rows up to the new knitting needle can be pulled up. The new row is now without any errors on the knitting needles.

Knitted purl stitch on the right side

You can also easily correct this mistake by knitting back if you are not too far behind. Otherwise you can also correct the incorrectly knitted stitch with the controlled drop stitch, as explained above for color errors.

A knit stitch is highlighted

If a stitch is highlighted from the rest of the knitting, that stitch is crocheted twisted. So when knitting, the knitting needle was wrongly inserted into the stitch. Again, if the stitch is not too far away, you can correct it by knitting back, or if it is far behind, correct the mistake with the controlled drop stitch.

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.” Elbert Hubbard

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes because with our tips and tricks you can now easily correct them.

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