Hi there everyone, I’ve just joined but have had many sneaky peeks for knitting assistance for the last few years. I started knitting during Covid and of course needed some guidance. Knittinghelp has provided so much help by either answering questions or providing links.
Thankyou everyone, this is a wonderful site and I’m very glad to be on board.
Now, if I could just stop knitting my hair!
Love you all
Sarah
Welcome to the KnittingHelp forum! ...Introduce yourself!
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I’m always knitting my hair too!
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Welcome to the forum!
Knitting was a great comfort during the pandemic. It good you thought to take it up then and good that you’re continuing. (I have a knitting buddy who knits with dog hair from a beautiful Samoyed.)
Thanks for joining.
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Hi i’m pat. like to knit
Welcome to the forum.
So do we! We’re pleased that you found us and joined.
You two reminded me of a funny video short called, “The Last Knit”
Thank goodness I keep my hair short. I am not a fast knitter.
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Love the video OJJ, very funny 
That animation is great. I like the tilt and pull back of the knitting which I know I do myself when I ought to be freeing up more yarn but find myself moving towards the balls instead. Great observation.
Thanks for sharing!
New to the site. Just started up knitting again and wanted to join the group. Looking to knit for my soon to be second grandchild
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Welcome to the forum!
The best reason to take up knitting again. Congratulations on the soon to arrive grandchild.
Thank you very much. I bought the pattern from St st. There is no pattern number. I saw your helpful tips but I can’t work out whether the I five is at the stArt of end of remaining stitches
It sounds like it’s the front band so the 5sts are not at the beginning edge but at the edge between the worked sts and the held sts. It may be part of the front buttonband.
That makes sense I will try that. Thanks
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Hi there everyone, I’ve just joined
Thankyou everyone, this is a wonderful site and I’m very glad to be on board.
Love you all
roma
Welcome to KH!
We do have the best, most helpful group ever right here. Glad you’ve joined us.
Hi there community, I am new to this forum & on a 5 hour flight with an issue I have tried various ways to google to resolve, without luck. I’m hoping someone can help! This seems like a great resource for me as I am not a beginner but not full fledged intermediate either! Here are some photos of my issue! It seems I have dropped a knit stitch - however - I have fiddled trying to troubleshoot and have ended up w a large loop with no visible laddering to pick up the stitch (I know how to basically do this). Can anyone help? Thank you so much!
Welcome to the forum!
So you’re missing a stitch and can’t ladder down to pick up the loop from that stitch? Is that it?
When you can’t ladder up any further the best thing to do is to tie the stitch off. You can run a short length of yarn through the loop then weave in the ends into the neighboring sts (maybe 6sts or so on each side) on the wrong side.
If the loop is very large you might even be able to cut it and weave in the tails, but probably not that large a loop,
If that’s not the problem maybe you can post a photo of the area around the loop. (Yours didn’t post.) Use the landscape icon in the upper middle of the Reply box to start posting a photo (or maybe the flight wi-fi isn’t allowing it?).
If there’s no ladder maybe you’ve just snagged it and pulled yarn from neighbouring stitches into a loop?
If this is the case you redistribute the yarn and it will disappear across maybe 6 or 7 stitches. If you look at the direction of travel into and out of the loop you may be able to see if this loop actually owns a stitch (it’s own stitch) or if the yarn came from neighbouring stitches by snagging and fiddling).
Occassionally I accidentally yarn over with a stitch (wrap but slip the stitch instead of dropping off, by accident) and if you’ve done this you might see a stitch next to the loop which is elongated as it’s worked in the row below and the row above but not worked in the row where the loop is. In this case your ladder is that column with the elongated stitch and if you ladder that stitch down you can work the loop into its row and continue up.
This is assuming you have a fabric that is reasonably easy to ladder and rework, like stockinette.
Hello my fellow knitters! I’m an orphan from the Reddit-sphere which is now largely populated by bots and ruled by various political influences in which I have no interest. I’m retired now, but have only been knitting about a year and a half. I’m totally hooked (needled?)! I’m happy to have found a dedicated knitting forum - it makes me think of how we used to do forums back in the ‘olden days’. Anyway, just want to check in and say ‘hi’ to everyone and to thank you for maintaining this forum.
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