How to Pick Up a Missed Stitch in Knitting

Sometimes knitting for hours can cause you to miss a stitch. If that happens, no need to worry, you can pick up the stitch without having to start the entire knitting project over from scratch.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Yarn
• Knitting needles

1. Pick up both the stitch that you dropped and the strand on the right knitting needle. Make sure you insert the needle from the front of the knitting work to the back of the knitting work.
2. Insert the knitting needle that is in your left hand through the stitch, not the strand. Do this from the front of the knitting work to the back of the knitting work.
3. Pull the strand up through the stitch with the needle in your right hand. This will create the extra stitch.
4. Drop the stitch from the needle in your left hand.
5. Transfer the remade stitch back to the needle in your left hand. This will make the stitch untwist and face the correct way.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't make the stitches too tight to ensure that fixing a dropped stitch won't take a long time to fix.