Knitting Scarves: Common Mistakes

Video Transcript

"Okay so now that you've been knitting and you've got a couple of rows of your garter you may run into some common mistakes. You relax, you're enjoying your knitting but there are things you may do and you wonder why you're getting too many stitches or your stitches aren't sitting right. A really easy way to get more stitches is if your yarn is sitting behind the needle it looks like you have one extra stitch when reality your yarn needs to be down and you have one stitch. So what people sometimes do is knit into that what seems like an extra loop, it's not an easy thing to do but they persevere and knit that and then they've got an extra stitch and it's a really loopy stitch. So you always want to be careful when you're knitting that the yarn, oops sorry about that, that your yarn is down and that loop is right there. So that's one common mistake. Another common mistake is if you twist your stitch. And you can twist your stitch if you wrap the wrong way. So instead of wrapping over the needle if you wrap it the opposite direction you can twist a stitch. So I've done that on purpose over here by the yellow marker and you can see that it's just not sitting the same way as the other stitches. It's just a little bit off kilter. So when I get to that stitch, to fix it I'm going to want to knit into the back of the stitch. The regular way you're knitting in the front of the stitch. But if I do that then not only have I got a stitch on the wrong way I've got a twisted stitch. So I'm going to put that back and what you want to do is knit into the back of the stitch and by doing that you've righted your stitch."