TIP | Fixing Unruly Mistakes

I was doing so well with my learn to knit brioche project... until I wasn't. I don't know if the trouble started because I was feeling overly confident, under the weather, or a combination of the two. Either way, I made a small mistake and had to tink, or un-knit, a few stitches. In the process of "fixing" my small mistake I made a bigger one and dropped a couple stitches. By the time I noticed, they had started to ladder down past the point of no return meaning I would have to rip out several rows to make things right.

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Of course, I wanted to fix my mistake right away, but I remembered and followed knitting rule number one.

However, before I could set my knitting aside for the evening I wanted to make sure those dropped stitches were marked and held in place so things wouldn't get more tangled up.

After a good night's sleep and a cup of coffee I was ready to take another look at things so I brought my knitting out to the kitchen table, removed my knitting needles and ripped back to the locking stitch markers that were holding my dropped stitches.

It's a little scary seeing all those loose stitches dangling on the edge.

After removing the markers it was time for some surgery. I picked up the first two stitches with my project needles and then remembered a better option.

Using tiny needles makes it easy to pick up bigger stitches. There's more room to maneuver through the stitch without tightening things up and risk dropping more stitches.

Before long my project was back on my needles and I was ready to continue knitting the Whale Conga Line shawl pattern by Michele Lee Bernstein.

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