Dear Knitters,
I'm knitting this scarf and totally dropped a stitch mid-scarf and need some advice for fixing it. I can't really use the crochet hook method and carry it up to the top because it's about two feet down AND due to the short rows of the pattern, it can't really be carried up to a live row anyway.
Thoughts? Ideas? Magical incantations? Perhaps just take a few inches of leftover yarn and weave it into the stitch and secure the live ends? Do tell.
Yes, I'm hijacking the Ask the Knitters series for my own gain on my own project. HA!
-Allison on her couch in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Yarn is our 15th anniversary color from Malabrigo that debuted yesterday, Blue in Green on Rios, also available on Sock. I used two skeins and a 24" US 7 needle to make this pattern.
What you said. Take a few inches of yarn, loop it through, & weave the ends in. I would probably fold the yarn in half, put it through that stitch, pull the ends through that loop, thus securing that stitch in that few inches of yarn. Then I’d weave in the ends very securely.
Posted by: Donna | June 17, 2020 at 04:17 PM
Use duplicate stitch to insert what should have been there. It works.
Posted by: ElizabethD | June 17, 2020 at 06:22 PM
What about laddering it up to the point where it would have been integrated into a short row, and then taking a bit of yarn and do a little duplicate stitch and weave it in in the wrong side?
Posted by: Rachael | June 17, 2020 at 10:27 PM
Huh. I just realized that I interpreted the photo wrong, it's not a dropped stitch. Yeah, just wash that sucker and that loop will probably disappear completely unless you're looking for it.
Posted by: Rachael | June 17, 2020 at 10:29 PM
Finish, wash, block, wear with pride. Consider it proof of you being human!
Posted by: Cindy Carpenter | June 18, 2020 at 09:47 AM
Absolutely fudge it with a scrap piece. If it turns out at all visible in the end, it's the result of being a handknit item.
Posted by: Carol | June 18, 2020 at 11:43 PM