PurlsAndPixels

If you find a mistake that is too far back to easily correct, you can “frog” or unravel your knitting to reach and fix the mistake or to completely start your project over. What is Frogging? Unraveling worked yarn is…

Before you can fix slipped knit stitches, you will need to know what they are and how to spot them. If you move a live stitch from needle to needle without working into it, you have slipped a stitch. When…

Before you will be able to correct your mistake, you will need to get to the column in which your  mistake was made. You can continue working until you’ve come back to the column of stitches in which the mistake…

Dropping a stitch simply means a stich has fallen off your needles at some point. This is one of the most common knitting mistakes for beginners and advanced knitters alike. When a stitch slips off your needle, don’t worry. Even…

To fix a twisted knit stitch, it helps to know how twisted stitches happen. A stitch will become twisted when you knit (or purl) into the back loop of a stitch. It is easy to knit into the back loop…

After making a pattern of knits and purls, you will want to take your stitches off the needles in a way that matches the rest of your piece. Following the design of the previous row as you bind off creates…

Did you make a knit stitch or a purl stitch? Learning to tell the difference between knits and purls will help you spot mistakes in your knitting. Then, you can go back and fix your mistakes before you bind off…

After you bind off a piece of knitting, you will almost always have one or more yarn tails to weave into your piece. There are two schools of thought on how to get rid of those loose yarn ends on knitting.…