Fix Knitting Mistakes - How to Pick Up a Dropped Stitch, Ladder Down to a Mistake Rows Back, and Sort Out Twisted Stitches, Wrong Gauge and Uneven Tension Without Starting Over #1011725

You are an inch from finishing the sleeve when you see it: a loose loop and a ladder of bare strands running down through eight rows of perfectly good knitting. Or your stitch count is suddenly off by one. Or the sweater you have been knitting for a month is clearly coming out two sizes too big. Every knitter knows the sick little drop in the stomach, and the question that follows: do I have to start over? Fix Knitting Mistakes is the book pattern books skip. It does not teach you to cast on or purl. It teaches you to read the fabric already on your needles, name what went wrong, choose the least drastic repair that will actually hold, and carry it out with your own hands. Unlike stitch dictionaries and pattern collections, this is a repair manual built around the questions knitters really ask on help forums: how do I fix a dropped stitch, how do I ladder down without making it worse, are my stitches twisted, why does my gauge never match, how do I fix an accidental increase, and can I rescue a project that is already blocked and dried.