![]() ![]() Heather Zoppetti lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and yarn collection. Have you tried using duplicate stitch to fix your colorwork mistakes? How else have you used duplicate stitch? Repeat these steps across the area you are working (Figure 1). Begin at lowest point and work as for horizontal duplicate stitch, but end by bringing the needle back out at the base of the stitch directly above the stitch just worked. Vertical duplicate stitch is worked in a similar fashion. You can work duplicate stitch either horizontally, like I did with the Flurries Cowl, or vertically. Repeat for as many stitches as you need to fix (Photo 6). If you’re fixing multiple stitches, bring the needle back out at the base of the V of the next stitch to the left to begin the next duplicate stitch. Step 3: Take the needle back into the fabric at the same place it entered, completing the stitch (Photos 4 and 5). Step 2: Trace the stitch by taking the tapestry needle behind both legs of the stitch above (Photo 3). From the back of the fabric, bring the needle up into the bottom of the stitch to be fixed (Photo 2). Step 1: Thread the correct color yarn onto the tapestry needle. I’ll show you how to use duplicate stitch to fix this square (Photo 1). Here are the actual errors in my Flurries Cowl as you can see, I made several. However, instead of using knitting needles, you’ll use a tapestry needle threaded with the correct color to trace over the stitches of the wrong color to correct them. The technique is called duplicate stitch because you will be duplicating stitches that you have already knitted. This technique is especially helpful for small bits of color that are not worked all over, such as words, faces on dolls, and little-used third colors in Fair Isle patterns. You can also use duplicate stitch to add colorwork after knitting when you do not want to use stranding while you’re knitting. Let me show you how you, too, can use this magic technique to fix errors in your stranded colorwork. In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates fixing a dropped stitch when working in garter stitch. I wanted to fix them before I sent in the sample, of course, but I did not have time to rip back to the beginning. Mary Beth also shares some tips on how to recognize that the stitch is being picked up correctly in garter stitch.While I was finishing up knitting the Flurries Cowl for knitscene, I noticed that I had made some mistakes in the stranded colorwork way back at the beginning. The crochet hook or needle is then worked from front to back or back to front, depending on the row, to pick up the stitch and maintain the garter stitch patterning. Each strand will be picked up and it’s important that they are picked up in the correct order. This allows you to better see the strands of yarn that need to be picked up and worked into stitches. Carefully give your knitting a tug from side to side. Place the stitch on the crochet hook or needle. I had much more success with simply sewing a circle onto the knitting in running stitch. Because all the stitches are raised, you can’t simply embroider over the existing stitch, the colour you’re embroidering with simply slides off and you’re left with a confusing mess. To repair the dropped stitch, first catch the dropped loop before it unravels to the cast on. Oversewing or Duplicate Stitch simply doesn’t work with garter stitch. Using a slightly smaller hook or needle makes it easier to get between the strands of yarn to repair the dropped stitch. The gauge of the crochet hook or knitting needle isn’t too important however, using one that is the same size or slightly smaller than the knitting needle you are knitting with is best. Mary Beth demonstrates how to use both knitting needles and a crochet hook to fix the stitch, but a crochet hook is her preferred method. While a dropped stitch can be repaired with the tips of your knitting needles, it’s much easier to work the dropped stitch with a crochet hook. In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates fixing a dropped stitch when working in garter stitch. Everyone makes mistakes, and it’s important to know how to fix those errors in order to get back to knitting. Making mistakes in your knitting project is unfortunately a part of the knitting process. ![]()
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