Apologies in advance for my lengthy comment and questions. This is awesome advice!🙏❤😃 I'm a newbie so these tips will be most helpful in my knitting future. Thanks !😃 ❓❓QUESTION ❓❓ I've crocheted 50+ years but it's only been 3 short weeks since I learned to knit trendy potholders using macrame rope. I've knitted 4 potholders so far and decided to attempt to use the same garter stitch and yarn to knit a scarf. I messed up very early on and there's a big gap (maybe 10mm?) in one row. I'm NOT going to backtrack/undo it to fix it. It's way too much and too complicated for me to go backwards and undo it. My brain is 🤯 just thinking about it. 😂 I started with the long tail cast on and I was wondering.... IS IT POSSIBLE to undo the beginning rows up past the row where the goof is so that the row following the "goof row" becomes the new beginning row and the starting end of my scarf? Or will that cause it to fall apart? **[For example, let's say the goof is in row 4... can I undo the first 4 rows so that the end of my scarf and the new row-1 beginning row starts at Row 5?]** I hope I haven't confused you If I can't undo the first few rows, I'll just disguise the goof somehow. If it were crochet, I'd probably be able to figure out a fix (or wouldn't have goofed - lol) but knitting is so new to me that I can't wrap my brain around a way to fix it. Thanks so much for any assistance you can give me! 🙏 🙂 Btw, I liked and subscribed!👍😃
Welcome my fellow Bi-Stitchual! :D If I understand your issue, you have two options. The first is to ladder down and fix it like I showed in the first video of this series. Second, you can run a lifeline through a row of stitches a couple of rows up from your "oops", and pick out the rows below them. This would leave you with live stitches at that end of the project as well as the normal direction of work. There are actually patterns out there that have you do something called a provisional cast-on that use scrap yarn you pull out later resulting in live stitches at both ends on purpose! :) Then you could do whatever with them you like. If you want to give that a go, check out my Crocheted Cast-Ons episode: I show the crocheted provisional cast-on followed by my video about Lifelines - the first will help you understand what you are trying to do here and the other will help you do all this without losing more than you planned on! And in the end, don't be frustrated if it doesn't work out - it's all part of the learning experience and our mistakes can teach us a lot if you'll let them! Thanks for watching and I hope this helped.
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Nice scarf!
Apologies in advance for my lengthy comment and questions. This is awesome advice!🙏❤😃 I'm a newbie so these tips will be most helpful in my knitting future. Thanks !😃
❓❓QUESTION ❓❓
I've crocheted 50+ years but it's only been 3 short weeks since I learned to knit trendy potholders using macrame rope. I've knitted 4 potholders so far and decided to attempt to use the same garter stitch and yarn to knit a scarf. I messed up very early on and there's a big gap (maybe 10mm?) in one row. I'm NOT going to backtrack/undo it to fix it. It's way too much and too complicated for me to go backwards and undo it. My brain is 🤯 just thinking about it. 😂 I started with the long tail cast on and I was wondering.... IS IT POSSIBLE to undo the beginning rows up past the row where the goof is so that the row following the "goof row" becomes the new beginning row and the starting end of my scarf? Or will that cause it to fall apart? **[For example, let's say the goof is in row 4... can I undo the first 4 rows so that the end of my scarf and the new row-1 beginning row starts at Row 5?]** I hope I haven't confused you
If I can't undo the first few rows, I'll just disguise the goof somehow. If it were crochet, I'd probably be able to figure out a fix (or wouldn't have goofed - lol) but knitting is so new to me that I can't wrap my brain around a way to fix it.
Thanks so much for any assistance you can give me! 🙏 🙂
Btw, I liked and subscribed!👍😃
Welcome my fellow Bi-Stitchual! :D If I understand your issue, you have two options. The first is to ladder down and fix it like I showed in the first video of this series. Second, you can run a lifeline through a row of stitches a couple of rows up from your "oops", and pick out the rows below them. This would leave you with live stitches at that end of the project as well as the normal direction of work. There are actually patterns out there that have you do something called a provisional cast-on that use scrap yarn you pull out later resulting in live stitches at both ends on purpose! :) Then you could do whatever with them you like.
If you want to give that a go, check out my Crocheted Cast-Ons episode: I show the crocheted provisional cast-on followed by my video about Lifelines - the first will help you understand what you are trying to do here and the other will help you do all this without losing more than you planned on! And in the end, don't be frustrated if it doesn't work out - it's all part of the learning experience and our mistakes can teach us a lot if you'll let them! Thanks for watching and I hope this helped.