Quick Tip: Fixing Twisted Stitches
Mary Beth Temple
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It happens to the best of us – we are knitting right along when we notice that instead of the stitch we want to work in being seated on the needle with the right leg forward, the left leg is forward and if we knit or purl into that as we normally would, we will wind up with a twisted stitch, or one in which the resulting stitch has its legs crossed. Check the video for quick ways to fix this issue – and if you want to see some twisted stitches in action on purpose you can watch this video on How to Work Twisted Ribbing.
Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And whether I am picking up and knitting stitches on purpose or I've made a mistake. I pulled out my needles. I ripped back a couple of rows and I'm frantically trying to pick all those stitches up before I lose them. Sometimes I don't get them on the needle.
Exactly. Right. So, here is a way when you're knitting right along on stitches that you have picked up on purpose or in a dead panic, how you can fix them as you go without having to take them all off the needle again and reset them all. Now, generally speaking, when you're knitting away, you want the right leg of your stitch to be facing forward. So, so far, so good.
Now I come here. Oops, if I knit the stitch, the way I put it on the needle, you can see I'm gonna have it, twisted, its little legs are gonna be crossed. It's gonna be a twisted stitch and that's not what I want, but I don't want to fuss and take it off the needle and move it because what if I drop it again? So, what I'm going to do when I see this is just knit the stitch through the back loop, which takes the twist out. So I'm, again, I'm knitting.
I have these stitches right leg, facing, everything's great. Oops, my left leg is facing. That's not what I want. I'm gonna go ahead and knit right through the back loop and that's gonna take the twist out exactly when I need it to be. And it's gonna be a lot quicker than trying to take the needle out and resetting all the stitches again because sometimes a knitter has to do what a knitter has to do.
What a great tip. Thank You.