I am knitting a hat on circular needles, and somehow, somewhere, all of my rows are off. In part of it, I have 4 rows, on another I have 6, and on yet another, I have 7. How can I even this all out? Can I just get a straight needle, and do a back and forth thing on the rows until they even out?
Thank you in advance.
I’m not sure what you mean :?? . Could you post a picture?
Are you stopping and putting your work down a lot – and maybe knitting in the wrong direction when you pick it up? If you look near the bottom of this page, it shows how to tell when you’re knitting inside out. I think that’s what’s causing the problem. You can knit right side out or inside out, but you need to keep it consistent to make sure you keep going in the same direction. As for fixing it, I think the easiest thing to do would be to unravel back down past the mistakes. Amy has a video showing how to insert your needle into a destination row before unraveling here under “fixing mistakes.”
Probably have to go back to where all the stitches have 4 rows and start over from there. Make sure when you pick up your work after setting it down that the yarn going to the skein is coming off the right needle tip. That way you’ll be going the correct direction.
sue
DH took the digital camera. Let me see if I can paint a picture.
On the circular needles, as I look at it, it slopes down, it starts with 4 rows, then gets bigger, and I have been working even all the way around, I am just not sure how this happened. It goes from four rows to 7. Can I fix it without frogging?
Okay, it was a little untraditional, but I fixed it, using my version of short rows. I think we are okay.
Coming from the “World’s Laziest Knitter” who will pretty much dance naked in the street if it avoids frogging work, I say GOOD FOR YOU!!! :cheering: