How To Fix a Disaster or How To Be The Master Of Your Knitting by Crazy Girl Owner Leslie Matheson

So...you find a little dropped stitch.  No big deal, right?  Unless its down 18 rows and involved in a decrease sequence. You could rip out the 18 rows and reknit..  But when the rows are very long, as in this Knit Swirl sweater, that is an unacceptable solution (at least for me).

So instead, I drop the decrease stitch all the way down, undoing 6 decreases in the process, and end up with this...

Now I catch my dropped stitch and all the unravelled stitches on another needle.  I usually use a smaller one because it's easier to manipulate the stitches with it.  Then take stock of what you are dealing with and begin to reknit the section using the "bars" strung across as your working yarn.  Like this...

Being careful to always get the correct bar picked up.  They like to hide so make sure the working yarn is the same one that forms the stitch directly adjacent to the stitch you are about to create.  Work one row at a time, working in pattern...

Continuing up, redistributing any slack in the last stitch of a row, into the other stitches you are fixing so that they are all the same gauge.

Progress up and up until, finally, it's all fixed....YAY! 

You have saved many hours of knitting and gained a sense of mastery over your knitting.  If this seems out of reach for you, consider private lessons with Leslie at Crazy Girl. Call her at 319-266-9276.  Be the MASTER OF YOUR KNITTING!