Fixing Mistakes in Fisherman’s Rib

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple and I love to knit in fisherman's rib. And I like to teach people to knit in fisherman's rib. But the number of emails I have gotten from people that said I made a mistake in my fisherman's rib. I didn't know how to fix it and I ripped the whole thing out and started over because it was too hard to fix. So we're gonna learn how to fix it. So, the first one, which is the more complicated one is what happens if you accidentally make a knit one below in a stitch where you should have pearled. So now you have chaos. You have all these strands that are hanging out in the wrong place and you need to know how to fix it. So, the first thing that I recommend you do is give a serious tug to your working yarn. And once you see where that hole is, where the working yarn is coming out, stick your left hand needle tip right in there, you're gonna catch all of the loops that are loose and that will prevent you from dropping a stitch. Then I'm gonna pull my right hand needle tip out. And then here is my madness on my left hand needle, I have three strands which is far too many for one stitch. So I want to make sure my longest strand, which is this one is at the bottom. I'm going to bring my right hand needle tip from back to front through those two strands that are hanging out on the needle point. I'm gonna scoop down and grab that super long one and then I'm going to pop all those strands off the left hand needle and now that's where that wants to be, but I still have to work in it. That was meant to be a pearl stitch. So I'm gonna put it back on my left hand needle, making sure that the right leg is forward. So now I can pearl it and it's fine. You check on both sides, make sure you don't have any drama. What happens if you pearl when you should have knit one below and that's a far easier one to fix. Once again, I'm gonna give that working urine a tug. I'm going to stick my left hand needle tip right in there. I'm gonna pop the whole mess off my right hand needle and I'm back to where I belong. But I do wanna show you that 1st 11 more time because if you see it more than once, it's easy to figure out. So this is a stitch where I should have pearled and I'm knitting along and I'm watching TV, or the kid called, or the dog barked or what have you. And I accidentally did a knit one below stitch in a stitch where I should have pearled. I'm going to tug on the working yarn to figure out where it's coming from. Stick my left hand needle tip in that exact spot, pop it off the right hand needle because now I've saved it. It's not going to unravel, make sure that my very longest strand is towards me on the bottom. Come in from the back under two strands, scoop that long strand up from top to bottom and pop the other two strands off. Now, put it back on my left hand needle with the right leg forward and pearl. So now my patterns all fixed and I hope you never have to rip out your fisherman's rib again.