1 00:00:02,994 --> 00:00:05,475 - Every knitter, whether beginning or advanced, 2 00:00:05,475 --> 00:00:07,306 is prone to make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,306 --> 00:00:08,607 And when you're first starting out, 4 00:00:08,607 --> 00:00:10,230 ^that might really freak you out. 5 00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:12,427 ^But I'm gonna show you how to understand what's going on 6 00:00:12,427 --> 00:00:14,030 ^with your knitting when you make a mistake, 7 00:00:14,030 --> 00:00:15,010 ^and better than that I'm gonna show you 8 00:00:15,010 --> 00:00:18,471 how to fix it, and you won't worry so much. 9 00:00:18,471 --> 00:00:20,056 Dropping stitches is supposed to be a knitter's 10 00:00:20,056 --> 00:00:23,104 worst nightmare, but, it's really not that bad. 11 00:00:23,104 --> 00:00:24,887 My mom told me that when she was learning to knit 12 00:00:24,887 --> 00:00:27,851 as a little girl and she heard about dropped stitches, 13 00:00:27,851 --> 00:00:30,044 she would think that you would find little U-shaped 14 00:00:30,044 --> 00:00:31,787 pieces of yarn on the floor. 15 00:00:31,787 --> 00:00:33,626 But that's not what a dropped stitch is at all. 16 00:00:33,626 --> 00:00:35,334 This is what happens when you drop a stitch. 17 00:00:35,334 --> 00:00:38,796 Stitch decides to fly off the end of your needle like that. 18 00:00:38,796 --> 00:00:41,152 And you're knitting away and as you are, 19 00:00:41,152 --> 00:00:43,590 that stitch just starts to unravel, 20 00:00:43,590 --> 00:00:47,568 and then all of a sudden you're like, oh my god. 21 00:00:47,568 --> 00:00:49,765 I'll show you this is super easy to fix, 22 00:00:49,765 --> 00:00:52,406 but it's when you need the knitter's version of the scalpel, 23 00:00:52,406 --> 00:00:53,823 the crochet hook. 24 00:00:54,029 --> 00:00:56,383 You can fix a multitude of sins with this thing. 25 00:00:56,383 --> 00:00:59,923 You start by grabbing the last loop that you can find, 26 00:00:59,923 --> 00:01:02,198 put your crochet hook in there. 27 00:01:02,198 --> 00:01:05,084 Now this is how you catch knit stitches. 28 00:01:05,084 --> 00:01:07,603 For purl stitches it's a bit different. 29 00:01:07,603 --> 00:01:09,148 Then I'm gonna spread this out 30 00:01:09,148 --> 00:01:12,553 so I can see all the different rungs of yarn, 31 00:01:12,553 --> 00:01:15,720 grab the next rung and pull it through, 32 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,887 and then the one after that, and then the one after that, 33 00:01:21,864 --> 00:01:26,031 and the last one, put 'em back on the needle, all better. 34 00:01:30,164 --> 00:01:31,587 Doesn't even leave a scar. 35 00:01:31,587 --> 00:01:33,742 With purl it's a little bit different. 36 00:01:33,742 --> 00:01:37,909 Let's say I dropped a purl stitch, and it ran down 37 00:01:38,213 --> 00:01:39,713 a couple of rungs. 38 00:01:41,212 --> 00:01:42,045 Okay? 39 00:01:43,166 --> 00:01:46,583 If I do the same thing I just showed you, 40 00:01:47,845 --> 00:01:52,012 put a hook in there and started to pick up those rungs, 41 00:01:52,931 --> 00:01:55,813 I would actually end up picking up the row 42 00:01:55,813 --> 00:01:59,264 as if they were knit, cause knit stitches is when you pull 43 00:01:59,264 --> 00:02:02,681 a loop through another loop to the front. 44 00:02:03,856 --> 00:02:05,930 And if you're doing it picking it up purl-wise, 45 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:10,013 you actually have to put the hook in differently. 46 00:02:15,890 --> 00:02:18,617 Let me get down to the last one here. 47 00:02:18,617 --> 00:02:22,700 For purl you have to put the yarn there in front, 48 00:02:23,335 --> 00:02:26,585 put your crochet hook through the back, 49 00:02:26,836 --> 00:02:28,253 pull up a strand, 50 00:02:30,054 --> 00:02:33,887 and, can you tell this is like, a bit awkward? 51 00:02:33,910 --> 00:02:35,414 So here's the trick. 52 00:02:35,414 --> 00:02:38,214 Remember purl is just the back side of a knit stitch. 53 00:02:38,214 --> 00:02:40,493 If I wanna fix this dropped purl, 54 00:02:40,493 --> 00:02:43,580 I'm just gonna turn this bad boy over, 55 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:47,747 and I'm just gonna pick it up from this side, like a knit! 56 00:03:02,084 --> 00:03:03,334 Put it back on. 57 00:03:03,745 --> 00:03:05,828 See, it's all better now.