Fixing loose stitched in finished work

#1

Hello. What is the best way to fix loose stitches in finished work? These particular loose stitches resulted from trying to fix a mistake that did not work out well and are too loose to really distribute down the row.

Thanks!

#2

Could you share a photo of the loose stitches? How much extra yarn there is might determine how to try fixing it.

#3

Usually you can pull the slack over to a nearby stitch, and then from that stitch to another nearby stitch and then continuing until all slack has been spread out. For stockinette this is in really easy as you just lift with a needle the legs of each V until you got no slack anymore.

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#4

This is the technique engblom is describing. It’ll work with even looser stitches than shown.

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#5

As already said, it will probably distribute across the row if it’s a plain stitch like stockinette.

If you find you get all the way to the end of the row and the yarn is so much extra that it just cannot be shared between the other stitches in the row then you can keep this extra yarn in the seam.
If it is something like a 10 or 12cm loop you can snip it in the middle and weave in both ends either up the seam or with duplicate stitch in the back of the fabric.
You may need to keep rethreading your sewing needle if the yarn is this short, put the needle where you want to weave in and then thread it up with the short yarn, after pulling the needle through you may need to again place the needle into the fabric and then thread it with the yarn - because the yarn isn’t long enough to use the sewing needle in the normal way.

If the yarn loop is shorter than this I would not cut it but instead get a new length of yarn weave it in close by the loop then continue to weave in the new yarn but catch the loop each time, so basically you are sewing it down. The new yarn is invisibly woven in too.

I have done this with a few bits to neaten up some not quite right tension on colour work and no one would ever know - apart from everyone here who now know :joy:

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#6

Thanks!

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