I’m a beginning knitter, working on a hat that is partially in stocking stitch. Some stitches slipped off, but not quite like a dropped stitch, and when I slipped them back on it is totally wrong and now the working yarn is on the wrong needle. I am having trouble explaining what happened, so google isn’t helping. Here are some pictures, I’m currently on the wrong side row.
A close up of what I see when I try to knit:
A more zoomed out view:
When looking from the right side (so the opposite/non working side?)
Any advice on what went wrong or how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!
Looks like you’re doing stockinette. I can’t be sure, but it’s possible when the stitches fell off they dropped more than one row down. I see from your bottom picture there is one purled stitch among the knits. Is that part of the pattern or a mistake? You may have to tink (un knit) a row or two to get all the stitches and the working yarn back in the correct position.
The purl is a mistake, in putting a stitch back on I purled it instead of knitting it. so that stitch and the two on the other side are all incorrect in some way, but I’m not sure how to “undo” them
Were you able to get this figured out? I think what happened is when you were slipping stitches back on you slipped the last worked stitch to the wrong needle. I have done that too. The only sure way to know if a stitch is missing is to count your stitches.
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It looks like you’ve done a pretty good job of putting sts back. The needle that has the working yarn strand coming off it should go in your right hand. knit the first stitch on the left needle, then try this fix for the purl stitch.
You only need to drop back one row unlike the example in the video where the purl stitch is several rows below.
I think my error was unpicking a purl stitch incorrectly, and in trying to fix that I messed it up even more…whoops!
Here are three views of what it looks like now:
The loop I tried to unpick on the right needle
The loop in the middle, not on either needle.
What it looks like when I attempt to unpick it now
Can you post a photo like the 3rd photo but from the knit side, please? There should be a loop hanging there between the two needles. Grab onto it with a needle or stitch marker to keep it from laddering down any farther.
Here is the knit side of the 3rd picture
It looks to me that you’re all set to knit the stitch on the left needle and continue on the knit row. Make sure the stitch is seated correctly so it doesn’t become twisted.
I’m currently on the purl row
Do you normally knit sts from the left needle onto the right needle? (This is the conventional way but not the only way.) If so, that means that the right needle is the working needle and the yarn strand should be coming off the right hand needle. This is true for continental and US knitting style.
Yes, the yarn coming off the wrong needle is one of the problems I’m having.
What if you turn the knitting around, place the needle with the yarn coming off it in your right hand and work a knit row?
You can see this in the photo from the purl side. The blue dots show the previous row. The red dots are the current row. The stitch currently on the right hand needle is the next one to knit.
Would that give me and extra half row of knit stitches? since I would be going the opposite direction from before. I still need to go back and turn the knit stitch into a purl stitch, but I think I have tried to unpick then fix a stitch so many times it’s just created nonsense.
It shouldn’t give you a half row but just a continuation of the current row.
If you begin purling at this point (as in the photo above with the dots) you will create an extra half row. You’ll be purling back over the red dot sts which have already been knit. I think you don’t have a problem of the yarn coming off the wrong needle.
If you haven’t knit very many rows, you could count the number of rows on the left needle side vs the right needle side. That’ll confirm the direction you should be knitting in.
I think I’m still confused. Shouldn’t the yarn be coming off the right hand needle when I work a row, so that loops are added along the right hand needle? So in that picture with the red and blue dots, the yarn is on the wrong side. I think that loop should be on the other needle (it has already been worked), but switching it over doesn’t create a proper purl or knit stitch.
And when I try to unpick it, it ends up looking like this
Sorry this is taking so long! I’m sure it’s simple
The point of the red and blue dots was to show you which sts had been knit (red dot) and which sts are next (blue dot). Even though you think this is a purl row, it for sure looks like you should turn the knitting around and work a knit row. The yarn will then be coming off the right hand needle solving that problem.
You have nothing to lose by trying it.
This is the way I would recommend orienting the needles and continuing to knit the row (you’ve already corrected the errant purl stitch here).
If you decide that you want to continue to purl the row, then do that. Once you’ve worked that first stitch the yarn will be coming off the right hand needle. The only problem is that you will leave a small hole at that point.
