i knitted the last row and it was so hard to knit it, with so few stitches (like 25 stitches on a 16" round, and i pulled the stitches as tight as the wire of the circular WHO KNOWS WHY i dont know why i did it and now i cant get my first hat off my addis. does anyone have any advice. when i try and darn off the stitches, the stitches wont fit over the needle to slip off. any suggestions?
Stuck in bad situation - getting hat off of addi turbos
can you just pop it off on to DPNs stitch by stitch?
if i could get the stitches to get past the needle yes, but the stitches are stuck on the wire, too tight to go from the wire over the needle.
any ideas? the only one i have come up with is to cut each and every stitch adn then frog it a bit. i was hoping that there would be something else i could do :crying:
Can you pull the flexible part between two of the stitches to bring the needle closer to it?
Did that even make sense?
well if it is on an addi i would think that the cord would be flexible enough to pull one end of the circ out of the work to get the stitches closer together and start pulling them off the needles.
um, i think im not very good at explaining myself. the stitches are so small and tight that they do not slip over the needle. i have no problem manipulating them back and forth over the wire, but when i try adn get them to push over the needle itself they wont fit. not one.
I understand what you mean. I think you’ll have to do it stitch by stitch. At the bottom of the stitch pull it down so the top loop stretches out a bit. I’ve had this happen and you just do one at a time and move the needle down. Do you know what I mean?
Next time you’ll know not to go TOO tight. 
will i ever!
the yarn is acrylic/nylon so there wasnt much give. i struggled with it for a while and then decided to cut the loops, and i was unable to save it. i ruined it. so i cleaned off my circs and started a new hat immediately. i wore the tube of fabric on my head while beginning my new hat. im sure i looked like a loon, but i wanted to get some pleasure out of it at least!
Are you actually knitting onto the cable? The way to use circular needles is to form the stitches on the needle part, not on the cable itself. The cable is used to hold numerous stitches that have been formed on the needles.
i think the problem is that she kept knitting too long as she was decreasing and the work got so small and tight that she couldn’t get them off the needle…at least that is what was finally getting through my head…i am probably still wrong! :rofling:
Oh, I wasn’t even thinking of that, switching to dpn. Sorry, I miss read her post, I thought she mean’t the stitches wouldn’t move because they were so tight around the cable itself, sorry again.
thats what happened, and i did knit directly onyto the cable for my last row. the hat was perfect until the very very last row. i could kick myself!
but live and learn right? im about a 1/3 of the way done with my new hat hopefully this one will actually become a hat. :doh: :lol:
Hey! Could you tink that last row and do it over?