Quick Tips: Making A Partial Lifeline

Hi there. I am Mary Beth Temple. And a lot of times we tell knitters to use lifelines on their lace projects so that if you make a mistake and you can rip back to the lifeline, you can save yourself a lot of effort. However, if you're fitting even a cable or a color work pattern, you find a mistake, a couple of rows pass and you'd like to fix it. But you're worried about dropping a stitch.

You can add a partial lifeline, find a row that is correct. A few rows under the mistake, take your yarn and your yarn needle and you're going to come in from the back and just grab the right leg of every stitch in the row. So if I have a mistake, that's one or two stitches wide, I'm gonna drop this lifeline probably eight or 10 stitches because it's always better to be too big than too small. But once I put that lifeline in, if I have a mistake right here, I can comfortably drop all these stitches, they won't unravel past the lifeline and I can re knit my mistake area, fixing my color, work my cable or any other kind of stitch pattern issue that I might have.