Hi all! I’m working on a blanket and suddenly this hole appeared. I can’t figure out what happened or how to fix it. It doesn’t look like a dropped stitch…plus I don’t know how to rip back on circular needles or, for that matter, unknit multiple rows. This is only my second project. Any ideas about what happened and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated!!!
Hey! This is not all that bad. I would suggest only dropping down the single column of stitches where the offending problem is. There are a few great videos on youtube that show how to do this (link below to one).
If you want to rip back (which honestly doesn’t seem necessary) you can run a piece of yarn through a row of stitches that are below your mistake as a “place holder”, then just slide your work off the needles and pull! Again, lots of great videos describing this, but I would start with option 1.
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Welcome to KH. Overall your knitting looks really good. What happened? To me it looks like an incomplete stitch. That happens when you wrap the yarn but it doesn’t get pulled through the stitch on the needle. You end up with a yo and when you work into it you get a hole. @LolaJames explained about fixing it. It might be a good idea to knit a small piece and learn how to fix the various things that stalk us as knitters. You could learn to tink (unknit stitches one at a time, keeping them on the needles) and how to get the stitches back on the needles when you frog (take the needles out and rip out some rows.) It wouldn’t need to be very big, 10 stitches would be plenty IMO. Learning how to recover from a mess up will give you more confidence.
I’m not an expert by any means and my diagnosis of the cause could be wrong. It might be just a very loose stitch, which can and does happen.
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