Quick Tip: Fixing A Drop Knit Stitch

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple and I am a firm believer despite opinion to the contrary that every knitter should have a crochet hook in their toolbox because sometimes a crochet hook is the best tool even for a knitter. Now, I wanna pick up this dropped stitch in stock in net. And I'm just grabbing a crochet hook that I had laying around. The relative gauge doesn't matter. The stitch is going to pick up at the gauge of the knitting. It doesn't matter what size the crochet hook is, but smaller is better than bigger. It's better to have a smaller hook than a bigger one because you don't want to pull the stitch all out of whack. So the first thing I'm going to do is rescue my dropped stitch. I'm gonna get it right on my hook. So I don't lose it. I don't want it to unravel anymore. Now, I'm going to spread the two sides of the work apart so I can see all the rungs in the ladder. We want it to ladder here so you can get all your stitches in order. Now I'm going to go under the next loop and bring it through the one below under, get the next rung of the ladder and bring it through the loop. And I'm gonna do this all the way to the top under the next rung of the ladder. Bring it through the loop, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Until I get to the top. Now I'm going to put it on my left hand needle with the right leg facing forward and then I can just go on my merry way with my knitting and I have rescued my Wayward dropped stitch.