I am a beginning knitter this is my first project. I am working in the stockinett stitch. I have begun several times and have been making different mistakes and have started over several times. Anyway it is going pretty well this time but I have two holes. How do I go back to fix them or do I have to pull it all out again.
Thanks,
Dru :oops:
It depends what made the holes… You could have dropped a stitch or added a stitch. It’s a good idea to practice any old way for a while before beginning your first project. That way you can work on getting the stitches even and preventing mistakes on a sample piece.
sue
Yes garter stitch scarves are boring but you may want to practise on a rectangle or square until you can knit without accidentally adding or losing stitches and making holes. It doesn’t have to be a 2m scarf, just until you are comfortable doing stocking stitch without mistakes.
It’s up to you how to fix this. I am really fussy and I would unravel to the mistake but that is purely because of how much I want my item to be perfect. Let’s say your item contains, I don’t know, say 100 rows and your mistakes started 5 rows back. If you undo those rows, you will end up doing a total of 105 rows, not really that much extra work.
On the other hand you might not want the hassle especially as a learner. You can go either way.
However, if you just leave it, you’ll still see a hole. If the holes are from dropped stitches, they may continue to unravel and you will get a couple of ladders, like in a stocking. If you don’t want to undo and redo this, I suggest you get some cotton sewing thread in the same colour and carefully stitch the wool together, putting your sewing needle through the middle of the strand of wool when you sew, join together carefully. This will close the hole and stop the stitches dropping further down (if in fact you did drop them). A knitter could see that something was different there, but I don’t think it will be too obvious in the finished item.
The short answer is that you don’y HAVE to undo and reknit these. It’s really down to how much the slight imperfection will bother you.
It’s possible that the holes are not from dropped stitches, but accidentally doing a yarn over: this is basically making a loop around the needle, and then on the next row you knitted it like a stitch. If this is what you did you would have created a new stitch both times. Count your stitches. If you have two more than you started with then you probably made yarnovers both times.
How big are the holes? Can you post a photo? If they are BIG holes then stitching them closed with cotton will be a bit more apparent than closin g a tiny one this way.
Congratulations on starting with something more challenging than a garter stitch/knit square and let us know if you have any other questions!
Sarah