This just helped me immensely! I was ready to cry bc i finally got on in my first project and noticed a mistake, then messed up trying to fix the mistake-but this saved me! Thank you so much!!
Oooh, Jennifer, I'm so happy to hear that this tutorial helped you fix that mistake. It is heartbreaking to notice a mistake when you just finished a project, but you didn't give up and started to look for ways to fix that mistake. Hats off to your perseverance :-)
Thank you for this. I am experimenting with a few options on the bottom of a sweater and had to unravel 10 rows of 237 stitches. Small stitches🙄. I was at my wit's end trying to see each stitch on the right side and thought "there must be an easier way". Turns out your way is the easier way! Thanks again😊
This video was super helpful and saved a project that I was almost finished with and then realized I had messed up an entire row a few rows before and it was throwing the design off. This was so much easier to do/understand than other methods I looked up. Project is now back on track and looking perfect, and I didn’t lose a single stitch!
Hello! This was lovely and helpful, I'm a beginner who's knitting a garter scarf and I was very scared that I'd mess it up and have to start from the beginning. The other videos I found focused on the stockinette stitch and this is the first one I've seen that handles the garter side. So thank you!
BIG help. Thank you. I had forgotten that I'm "purl-challenged". You've swooped down to rescue, & to remind me that I need to practice this until I'm not challenged any more. Thanks, again. :)
I'm so happy that this trick helped you to safely frog two rows of your project. Thank you for taking the time to let me know :-) Happy knitting, my friend!
Watching this 6 years later and just wanted to say this is a fantastic tutorial. Gunna do this so I can redo the hem on the crop top I'm knitting (seems like it'll work great on in the round projects, as then I can't mess up the edges!)
This is a terrific instructional video on "how to" in unraveling to a knitting mistake. I'm guilty of not using 'life lines', so this method will be great next time I find that a repair needs to be made several rows up in my knitting. Thanks!
Thank you, Dorothy :-) I am glad this simple trick will help you better repair your knitting. Hopefully, there won't be any reason for that :-) Happy knitting!
Thank you so much for this video! I had to undo part of the raglan on the top of my very first knit sweater and thanks to you it worked perfectly! Not a single stitch dropped. Thank you again😊
Thank you! The first method you showed just saved my 10 rows from being done hat when I dropped a stitch 5 rows. Next time when I get to the ribbing I’ll slow down while purling til I get used to it again after knitting 60 rows.
I have used the technique of picking up stitches from the front with a fine needle as I often knit either lace or socks. But I’ve never done that from the backside. That’s it a good idea. I’ve also done a technique when I knitted cables and crossed the cable wrong, to release just the stitches in that cable and use DPNs to knit just that section again. It works but is much harder in some knitting techniques such as a pattern having yarn-overs. One of the knitting teachers I also follow showed the technique which I used for that, but any experienced knitter could figure that out. It can work in lace if the section is surrounded by stockinette. When it is an larger lace pattern, I’d insert a lifeline and redo that way. With lace shawls being huge, making corrections and how you choose to do them, means finishing the project vs. “it has become a nightmare” and you either rip it out or it goes in a box you hope to only find when you have an epiphany of what to do. All knitting problems have a solution, some require a rethink of how to accomplish and what sort of investment needs to be made in stitch markers to prevent the issue. Prevention is the best cure. We often knit and are listening to something and lose our place in a pattern, that is my issue. So I am now counting in my head as some patterns do not look like anything until you have row upon row. Then you can look and think what it is going to look like and it becomes easier.
So very true - all knitting problems have a solution. Sometimes we should be creative to fix them, but of course, it is much better to be proactive and use a lifeline and stitch markers. Thank you so much for sharing your bits of experience with all of us. Happy knitting!
Hi Maryna! Thanks for the tip. I am reworking an old project that I had to put down several years ago because I just couldn’t follow the chart accurately. I have two large butterflies of the wool yarn I had to unknit from the project. It looks sort of wavy in a loose sort of way. Can I re-use this yarn as I continue trying to complete this project, which is garter stitch throughout? Do I need to “relax” it in water first? Thanks again. 😊
Hi Bonnie. Yes, it's better to relax the yarn. I usually wind it in loose hanks (hold the yarn tail in your hand and wrap the yarn around your elbow and back into your hand), tie each hank in 3-4 spots, wash them in shampoo and dry. Then re-wind the hanks in balls or cakes (if you have a ball winder) and cast on for a new project. Good luck :-)
Oh MARYNA! I have been trying to make the exact sweater you are wearing!! But first....yours are my go-to videos on knitting so thanks! Now is there anyway I can get/purchase the pattern of your sweater here?!? 🙋🏻♀️🙏
Oh, thank you, Sharon :-) I'm happy you like my tutorials AND my favourite sweater. I called it Sideways Sweater, the pattern is at bit.ly/2MiUKDP I have two of them (one moss green and one mustard yellow) and plan to make one more because you can't have too many of those sweaters :-))
Try it on a small swatch - this way it won't seem too scary. You will feel much more confident with your knitting after you do this simple exercise. Good luck :-)
Thank you. Now I will not be lazy and fix my mistake. I am working with alpaca fiber so unraveling will be a challenge. Fingers crossed. Would you do any changes if unraveling ribbing?
This method works the same for all stitch patterns. Just make sure no purl stitch is hiding from you as you pick the stitches of ribbing before unravelling the project. Good luck!
If anyone else also goes from right to left but goes from bottom up through the purl - top loops, be sure to untwist your stitches before continuing your work, i wondered why the loops were so hard to put my needle into.. haha
That's so helpful, thank you. I need to frog back, but have knit and purl in the same row. Can I use both the techniques on the same side of the fabric? Will that work? TIA.
Yes, you can frog back to a row that has both knit and purl stitches, but make sure you know what row of the pattern repeat it is. This way you'll continue to work in the pattern without disrupting the pattern. Good luck :-)
Does this work for knitting in the round? I made a beanie and the decrease is too tight. It was a very intricate color work pattern so I’m hoping I can somehow just frog the decreased section and not have to start all over. Thank you!
Yes, this technique works for the fabric worked flat and in the round. Be careful not to mix up the stitches of the colourwork. It is easy to get confused with all those colourful strands. Make sure you have enough light and enough time for this "knitting surgery". Good luck :-)
@@10rowsaday Thank you!! Unfortunately once I frogged back the decreased section, the beanie was still too tight. I guess because of the floats & color stranding. This was my first attempt at color work. I’m so sad because it came out beautiful and it took me almost a month! Your technique is brilliant though. I have always just started over rather than frogging because I couldn’t pick up the live stitches. 😭😭
It gets trickier when we have two layers of stockinette fabric. I haven't tested it, but I would pick up one set of stitches from the right side of the fabric and another set of stitches from the same row on the wrong side of the fabric. After unravelling, I would alternate one stitch from the right side and one stitch from the wrong side, as I put the stitches back on the needles. Good luck!
@@10rowsadaythank you for your reply! I did attempt it and you do need to alternate but when I continued, it looked correct (the work) but upon completing a row, it stopped working. I must have inserted my lifeline in the wrong way, for perhaps one side of it. I would love it if you could do some testing, as I can’t just do the double stockinette if there isn’t a way to fix errors. I also had trouble joining a new skein of yarn as well :(
@@Winters_Kiss No worries, my friend. I've just added this topic to my to-test list. I'll do my best to figure out how this method can be applied to double-knitted fabric. Once I find a solution, I'll make a tutorial about it. Happy knitting!
The technique is the same with any stitch pattern. It could get tricky if you work in brioche or a lace pattern (because of all those yarn overs), but knit and purl stitch patterns are usually quite straightforward.
i've done 29 rows for nothing! grrr, how foolish am i??? such a silly move, i was copying instructions for the back, as told to by the pattern and went beyond the asterix by mistake, grrrr, my experiences with frogging in the past have only made things much worse :( to the point i've had to abandon the whole project and i'm almost done, only the neck border to do infuriating! *sad face* feelsbadman
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This just helped me immensely! I was ready to cry bc i finally got on in my first project and noticed a mistake, then messed up trying to fix the mistake-but this saved me! Thank you so much!!
Oooh, Jennifer, I'm so happy to hear that this tutorial helped you fix that mistake. It is heartbreaking to notice a mistake when you just finished a project, but you didn't give up and started to look for ways to fix that mistake. Hats off to your perseverance :-)
Thank you for this. I am experimenting with a few options on the bottom of a sweater and had to unravel 10 rows of 237 stitches. Small stitches🙄. I was at my wit's end trying to see each stitch on the right side and thought "there must be an easier way". Turns out your way is the easier way! Thanks again😊
Thank you, Wendy. I am so happy this method helped you make this huge task easier. Unravelling 237 stitches is no joke. Happy knitting, my friend!
This video was super helpful and saved a project that I was almost finished with and then realized I had messed up an entire row a few rows before and it was throwing the design off. This was so much easier to do/understand than other methods I looked up. Project is now back on track and looking perfect, and I didn’t lose a single stitch!
So happy to hear that, Michaela! Thank you for taking the time to leave this comment. Happy knitting!
Hello! This was lovely and helpful, I'm a beginner who's knitting a garter scarf and I was very scared that I'd mess it up and have to start from the beginning. The other videos I found focused on the stockinette stitch and this is the first one I've seen that handles the garter side. So thank you!
You are most welcome, Madenique :-) Good luck with the scarf!
BIG help. Thank you. I had forgotten that I'm "purl-challenged". You've swooped down to rescue, & to remind me that I need to practice this until I'm not challenged any more. Thanks, again. :)
I come back to this video for a reminder, maybe too often. It's good practice! It's a great trick.
Omg I’m so subscribing to your channel! I was about to quit knitting lol (I crochet but am tryna pick up on knitting) this saved me!
Thank you! I'm so glad I could help you NOT to quit knitting :-)
This was so helpful, it saved me when I had to frog back a couple of rows in garter stitch. Thank you!
I'm so happy that this trick helped you to safely frog two rows of your project. Thank you for taking the time to let me know :-) Happy knitting, my friend!
So helpful! Thank you! You're a good teacher 🙂
Great little technique love your videos so clear and easy to follow.
Thank you, Jennifer :-)
Watching this 6 years later and just wanted to say this is a fantastic tutorial. Gunna do this so I can redo the hem on the crop top I'm knitting (seems like it'll work great on in the round projects, as then I can't mess up the edges!)
This is a terrific instructional video on "how to" in unraveling to a knitting mistake. I'm guilty of not using 'life lines', so this method will be great next time I find that a repair needs to be made several rows up in my knitting. Thanks!
Thank you, Dorothy :-)
Thank you, Dorothy :-) I am glad this simple trick will help you better repair your knitting. Hopefully, there won't be any reason for that :-) Happy knitting!
Thank you so much for this video! I had to undo part of the raglan on the top of my very first knit sweater and thanks to you it worked perfectly! Not a single stitch dropped. Thank you again😊
Thank you! The first method you showed just saved my 10 rows from being done hat when I dropped a stitch 5 rows. Next time when I get to the ribbing I’ll slow down while purling til I get used to it again after knitting 60 rows.
Very good video. Liked all the detail step by step.
You so good on what you do.I love your videos 😊
Thank you so much, Tamara! :-)
@@10rowsaday Will this method work for stranded knitting with floats on the back of the work?
Thank you this was such a big help!
You are a genius! I do much better using the purl bumps when making a reactive lifeline. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome, Kelly :-) Happy knitting!
Thank you Very much for this trick!! I've never seen this before. A tremendous tool in my toolbox. Warmly, Anne
Thank you, Anne :-)
A great tip! Many times I've had to undo and I've undone rows very slow ways. It's a GREAT help!! 👍❣👕😁
This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you!
You're very welcome, Deborah :-) Happy knitting!
I have used the technique of picking up stitches from the front with a fine needle as I often knit either lace or socks. But I’ve never done that from the backside. That’s it a good idea.
I’ve also done a technique when I knitted cables and crossed the cable wrong, to release just the stitches in that cable and use DPNs to knit just that section again. It works but is much harder in some knitting techniques such as a pattern having yarn-overs.
One of the knitting teachers I also follow showed the technique which I used for that, but any experienced knitter could figure that out. It can work in lace if the section is surrounded by stockinette. When it is an larger lace pattern, I’d insert a lifeline and redo that way. With lace shawls being huge, making corrections and how you choose to do them, means finishing the project vs. “it has become a nightmare” and you either rip it out or it goes in a box you hope to only find when you have an epiphany of what to do.
All knitting problems have a solution, some require a rethink of how to accomplish and what sort of investment needs to be made in stitch markers to prevent the issue.
Prevention is the best cure. We often knit and are listening to something and lose our place in a pattern, that is my issue. So I am now counting in my head as some patterns do not look like anything until you have row upon row. Then you can look and think what it is going to look like and it becomes easier.
So very true - all knitting problems have a solution. Sometimes we should be creative to fix them, but of course, it is much better to be proactive and use a lifeline and stitch markers. Thank you so much for sharing your bits of experience with all of us. Happy knitting!
You’re my savior thank you so much ❤😂
Such an eye opening technique! Thank you
Hii :) Great video! Will this also work when you've knit in the round? Thanks!
Of course. This method works equally well for projects worked back and forth and the ones worked in the round.
Hi Maryna! Thanks for the tip. I am reworking an old project that I had to put down several years ago because I just couldn’t follow the chart accurately. I have two large butterflies of the wool yarn I had to unknit from the project. It looks sort of wavy in a loose sort of way. Can I re-use this yarn as I continue trying to complete this project, which is garter stitch throughout? Do I need to “relax” it in water first? Thanks again. 😊
Hi Bonnie. Yes, it's better to relax the yarn. I usually wind it in loose hanks (hold the yarn tail in your hand and wrap the yarn around your elbow and back into your hand), tie each hank in 3-4 spots, wash them in shampoo and dry. Then re-wind the hanks in balls or cakes (if you have a ball winder) and cast on for a new project. Good luck :-)
Oh MARYNA! I have been trying to make the exact sweater you are wearing!! But first....yours are my go-to videos on knitting so thanks! Now is there anyway I can get/purchase the pattern of your sweater here?!? 🙋🏻♀️🙏
Oh, thank you, Sharon :-) I'm happy you like my tutorials AND my favourite sweater. I called it Sideways Sweater, the pattern is at bit.ly/2MiUKDP I have two of them (one moss green and one mustard yellow) and plan to make one more because you can't have too many of those sweaters :-))
Wow -pretty amazing
I'm too new, looks scary but, I will practice this for sure!!
Thank you
Try it on a small swatch - this way it won't seem too scary. You will feel much more confident with your knitting after you do this simple exercise.
Good luck :-)
Thank you. Now I will not be lazy and fix my mistake. I am working with alpaca fiber so unraveling will be a challenge. Fingers crossed. Would you do any changes if unraveling ribbing?
This method works the same for all stitch patterns. Just make sure no purl stitch is hiding from you as you pick the stitches of ribbing before unravelling the project. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this video.
You are most welcome, Wanda :-) Happy knitting!
If anyone else also goes from right to left but goes from bottom up through the purl - top loops, be sure to untwist your stitches before continuing your work, i wondered why the loops were so hard to put my needle into.. haha
That's so helpful, thank you. I need to frog back, but have knit and purl in the same row. Can I use both the techniques on the same side of the fabric? Will that work? TIA.
Yes, you can frog back to a row that has both knit and purl stitches, but make sure you know what row of the pattern repeat it is. This way you'll continue to work in the pattern without disrupting the pattern. Good luck :-)
Thanks, I'll need it! And thanks for taking the time to reply.
Excellent video! Thank you so much...
So helpful, thank you so much 🤗
Lifesaver! Thank you :-)
Does this work for knitting in the round? I made a beanie and the decrease is too tight. It was a very intricate color work pattern so I’m hoping I can somehow just frog the decreased section and not have to start all over. Thank you!
Yes, this technique works for the fabric worked flat and in the round. Be careful not to mix up the stitches of the colourwork. It is easy to get confused with all those colourful strands. Make sure you have enough light and enough time for this "knitting surgery". Good luck :-)
@@10rowsaday Thank you!! Unfortunately once I frogged back the decreased section, the beanie was still too tight. I guess because of the floats & color stranding. This was my first attempt at color work. I’m so sad because it came out beautiful and it took me almost a month! Your technique is brilliant though. I have always just started over rather than frogging because I couldn’t pick up the live stitches. 😭😭
Thank you so much for saving my life lol 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing this great trick.
Thank you, Monica :-)
Life saver!
Does this work with the double stockinette stitch? @10rowsaday
It gets trickier when we have two layers of stockinette fabric. I haven't tested it, but I would pick up one set of stitches from the right side of the fabric and another set of stitches from the same row on the wrong side of the fabric. After unravelling, I would alternate one stitch from the right side and one stitch from the wrong side, as I put the stitches back on the needles. Good luck!
@@10rowsadaythank you for your reply! I did attempt it and you do need to alternate but when I continued, it looked correct (the work) but upon completing a row, it stopped working. I must have inserted my lifeline in the wrong way, for perhaps one side of it.
I would love it if you could do some testing, as I can’t just do the double stockinette if there isn’t a way to fix errors. I also had trouble joining a new skein of yarn as well :(
@@Winters_Kiss No worries, my friend. I've just added this topic to my to-test list. I'll do my best to figure out how this method can be applied to double-knitted fabric. Once I find a solution, I'll make a tutorial about it. Happy knitting!
@@10rowsadaythank you so much. You are most kind!
What if it's rib? Kit and purl?
The technique is the same with any stitch pattern. It could get tricky if you work in brioche or a lace pattern (because of all those yarn overs), but knit and purl stitch patterns are usually quite straightforward.
GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!
maybe its because i was knitting in the round but this did not work for me and led to a lot of frustration :(
Hi Clara, What went wrong exactly. Please let me know and I'll try to help. Thank you.
i've done 29 rows for nothing! grrr, how foolish am i??? such a silly move, i was copying instructions for the back, as told to by the pattern and went beyond the asterix by mistake, grrrr, my experiences with frogging in the past have only made things much worse :( to the point i've had to abandon the whole project and i'm almost done, only the neck border to do
infuriating! *sad face* feelsbadman
I agree - it never feels good to unravel; the work because a pesky mistake crept in a few rows earlier 😞