I like that you didn't edit out the unintentional dropped stitch! Thank you for showing all the difficult parts too, and for persevering and not scrapping the video!

Omg, Barbara you are a heaven sent. !,, You showed me an easy way to go up the ladder using needles not my fingers!!!

Kudos for tenacious, courageous knitting! Getting through this without throwing the needles up in the air is just amazing. Thank you for this. I learned a new technique “Watching Barbara Knit.” On to the next leg…

Thank you! This is the 4th or 5th “repair” video I watched the year and it is also the first to show/teach the details! Gold stars to you for taking on the challenge and providing a true learning opportunity.

Such a better way to do it than undoing rows to get back to the dropped stitch. Thanks Barbara, I’m learning new techniques every time I watch one of your videos.

Barbara, this video is a TREASURE! I have watched many videos but yours is the only one that showed more than one dropped stitch at a time. And I never seem to drop only ONE! This was so helpful and I am eternally grateful! Bless you!!!

Barbara, bless your heart!!!! You are a hero for producing that tough video. I have knit for better than 50 years and can just barely pick up lost knit stitches. I just give you on pearls. Whoever challenged you with this tutorial was NOT a friend 😬. But, God bless you took on that Herculean challenge and showed your true strength. You deserve to wear a crown today!! I learned a lot from that video. God bless you 😇.

The only repair missing in my opinion, is how to fix a dropped cast-on stitch. I’m still blown away by your skill in repairing all kinds of stitch mistakes, in addition to your magnificent designs. Thank you, Barbara!

You're a wonderful teacher (and have the patience of a saint!!)! Thank you so much, I had a vague idea of how to accomplish this, but now I know the correct way!

Such a gift this very illustrative demo of how difficult this actually is. I have been very hard on myself for not being able to sail thru this process because I LOVE garter and I love st st and I keep calling myself nincompoop for making mistakes on such a simple task, and then in the process dropping even more stitches that were perfectly fine and in order. Been knitting 60 years and still hard on myself despite some major feats I have created. Like you said its not easy but I personally think as an elder this is good for my brain, like in working puzzles, to accomplish the repair. Thanx so much for your expertise and your humility and humor. I salute you!

I love this video because it makes me feel that I’m not completely stupid! This is hard!! Thank you!!

Your videos are fantastic. If I could have one wish though, it would be to have them better organized. As a beginner, I have no idea which videos to watch in which order. There is no way I can remember all these steps. Lol I will have to come back and use it as a guide. You are the first teacher who admitted that this isn't easy! I would end up throwing my work in the trash! Lol

This was so helpful! I saved it in my video library and used it today! Thank you!

Super tutorial! Love that you showed both StSt and Garter fixes.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Also, thank you for making my mom and my night with the laughs on fixing that last one. We're laughing pretty hard! 🤣

Barbara , this just made the list of favorite videos. I always struggle with dropped stitches and was “inspired “ to see you have difficulties, but stick with it! I’ve only ever used a crochet hook for help, so it was good to see what to do if I don’t have one handy. Also I love the round robin idea. Thanks!

This was a vert good podcast. Your tutorial was so clear on the pros and cons of fixing dropped stitches. Thanks!

That was painful, but encouraging that you didn’t edit so that as beginners we aren’t discouraged with a project when we see a pro can struggle as well. Thank you! I will persist

Great video Barbara. Very informational.

Thank you for doing this video. I really appreciate that you left all the aggravation in on that last garter fix. It is good to see that even seasoned knitters have difficulty and it was good to see that even though it was tough it was doable. Love that you showed both with and without the crochet hook and explained the stitch mounts and hidden ladders. I so hate when then yarn goes splitty when you do this. When that happens I find switching to a smaller hook/needle helps in getting through the split.

This video helped me out tremendously. I'm working on a scarf as a first project and settled in to absentmindedly knitting while watching TV. I usually check every few rows to make sure things are going right but this time I managed to get about 7 rows past before realising I dropped 2 stitches in different rows. They were a pain to get back because it's a small, tight weave but I got there in the end thanks to your easy to follow instructions.

Thank you for the garter 'non crochet needle' method I had been looking for! It's so fiddly having to use one - fiddly enough fixing garter, but so much easier using your working needles IMO.

Great video. “So much harder in garter!” Thank you for this!

Just what I needed, when I needed it! Saved in favorites! Thank you Barbara! These technique videos are so great, because you can follow, pause do the technique, then continue to next step on our knitting, right along with you. This has helped me tremendously on a technique I had not done before. Keep the good stuff coming! I didn’t know I needed this until I needed it! There you were, Johnny on the spot! And it was 2 am! Who ya gonna call at 2am? Barbara, on You Tube! Kudos, ❤.

I have saved this to use when needed. Great instructions. I could never understand why I couldn’t fix garter stitches. Now I know. Thanks!!!

A definite keeper. Thanks for sharing.

I loved this! You are hilarious!

This is so helpful! Thank you 😊

You make me giggle lol It just shows with years of experience it isn't easy 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏 lol lol bless you for showing us. Only just found you on KZfaq I love the way you explain everything is brilliant thank you.... Will definitely be joining your Facebook group xx❤xx P.S just binned watched loads of your videos today 🙌🙌🙌🙌

thankyou! you explained it very well!! also entertaining. you're very funny!

Great tutorial, thankyou!

Thank you for this video. Very helpful.👍

Excellent!! Hope I can do this now. Thank you

Thank you Barbara! :)

Thanks for this video all the others i have watched were so neat and tidy and didnt look anythibg likebthe mess i was looking at!

So glad to see a pro like you having difficulty in fixing garter. I thought it was just me. I deal with it by flipping it back and forth so I just knit the stitches up but it's still hard. I saw a tool that had 2 hooks on either end so I may have to buy one. lol

Life saver 🙌🏻

Excellent

OMG! You did good. I would have ended up frogging … ribbit. lol

I always use a crochet hook to fix my dropped stitches, so it was cool to see how you fixed the problem using the knitting needles instead. Thanks. You had my sympathy trying to fix the final dropped stitch in the garter section. I just finished a project knit in moss/seed stitch where I had to drop back a few rows because I messed up the knit/purl pattern orientation and had to fix them. I used two crochet hooks - one from the back and one from the front. I was going nuts watching you trying to maneuver the stitch and hook...lol... oh the joys of knitting 😅 Great tutorial !

Fixing in garter is awful between stitches. Thank you for this video.

thank you for showing how to fix the garter stitches which I clearly always had a hard time to fix turning my work all the time, lol ;D

Thank you! I'm a novice knitting socks and I have been doing SOOO good not messing up.... the realized I dropped a stitch 5 rows back 😑 no it's still almost perfect.

Thanks

Very useful. I've had to pick up many "dropped" stitches, and the worst part for me was always trying to keep track of which ladder was next. Even harder when working with lace. For cases where I've lost a stitch, and didn't notice until rows later, huh, my stitch count is off, I do this. I rarely have an appropriate crochet hook nearby (I keep my beading one near, but that hardly works for retrieving stitches), but I do usually have several sock-sized DPNs. So, I pull the stitches back on my working needles (all the way to the cables if I have them) so they are less likely to fall off. And take two DPNs that are usually smaller than my working needles to bring up the stitch. Not only does this make it a bit easier to keep track of the ladder order, because you're not puckering the fabric between the problem stitch and where you left off working; but with smaller needles, the tightness of limited yarn is not so bad. Anyway, just my thoughts! Now must look at the other videos in this cute-idea series!

I am totally enjoying this great series of teaching videos.. Thanks so much Are you using Zings, size 8? I love my Zings.. The color coding is so helpful, and they are just pointy enough.. I also love my ChiaGoo Red Lace needles.. This was really, really a helpful video. I could actually see what you were doing..

I was watching, and was like a crochet hook would make this SO much easier. 5 seconds later, you whipped one out lol. Nice seeing how to do it with needles though

I've always used crochet hooks to fix dropped stitches, it never even occurred to me to use my needles to pick them up! Thanks for the tip!

Really enjoyed your struggle with the garter dropped stitch. I've done the stockinette repair successfully, but have given up on the garter if it's more than 1 or 2 stitches. Thanks

Well this was painful. Thanks for showing how it is in real life!!!!! ☺️

There is another option for correcting a dropped stitch which you have missed for a number of rows. This takes double pointed needles and the ability to use Continental method. You just let the number of stitches next to the dropped stitches drop the same number of rows, and then reknit all of them. If you are knitting something which would cause you grief to do a lot of ripping, this is a good solution. I've done this method to correct mistakes I've made in lace knitting also. This also works with knitting cables. There are times I have cabled what should have gone the other direction and this method can fix that also, in which case you need 3 DPNs. This method works best with wooden DPNs as they will grip the yarn more and you do really need to work your floppy yarn ladders in the correct order. The reason this works well is that it redistributes the lack of yarn among many stitches and will not be so visible. If this will stop a stretchy part in knitting from stretching properly, it would be best to frog it back and knit as you would usually do. There are small double-ended crochet hooks in the same sizes as knitting needles which are great to have in case of mistakes, but they are usually not the same size on both ends, but near enough that the difference will not show and they are wonderful for fixing garter mistakes.

Yep this beginner knitter is gonna 'ribbit!'. But nice to know that such a fix is possible.

Sympathies with that cussed purl in garter! I've found it easier to pick up dropped stitches in garter if I flip the work so I'm always working on "knit" stitches. Having a double-ended crochet hook can simplify things too.

Thanks for video. Cool idea. With other podcasters. Is anyone making a list to all the people involved? Would that be too difficult to ask for. I didn’t check your nots so I may be eating my words. Have to tell you. I’m in love with your hair. It’s so pretty. I used to be a cosmetologist, when I was in my early 20s. Your hair holds anything a hairdresser does. It’s difficult but the results typically work so well. No one likes what they have and wants what they see on others. But seriously it’s really an awesome. Type of hair to have. It’s actually very flat hairs/follicles like ribbons and that is why it curls. Just for FYI if other read this......Asians typically have very round single hairs are they are very straight. So their hair doesn’t take well to curl or hold it well either.

On the pearl stitch, can you not turn the knitting around? If you do, you are now facing the knit stitch and can apply the solution of the knit stitch.

This happens to me all the time. I usely end up taking out and starting over again and sometimes I can fix it. Thanks but for the video.

I held my breath through so much of this .. lol ... breath-breath (telling myself)

I am a new Continental knitter. I noticed that on some of my rows the first stitch has a large loop that cannot be tightened. I do not know how or why I am doing this. If I continue to knit more rows the loop is not as noticeable, however, it is still there and bothers me. Got any suggestions? Thanks

I don't want to have to think back 200 stiches If it's just dropped and its caught on the row and marked how do I work the dropped should be k on the next p row? I caught the dropped stich that I should have k didn't see it till entire row was completed now turn to p row .can I pick it up on my needle k and p? Then move on? I only have 19 rows to go! Ugh! I don't know if I should scream or cry!!

How do you find the the stitch you dropped.

Barbara can u show me how to knit socks please

I wish you loom knitted? I have a terrible problem! 2 or maybe 3 stitches came off while casting off! 😞

When picking up purl stitches, I turn the work around and pick up a knit stitch. Easier for me.

I have thrown away half finished garments because of garter stitch. I could never make it look right.

More confused than ever! 😖😭

Barbara, I love your channel but this was painful to watch. It would have worked better if you let the crochet hook do all of the work rather than using a combination of the crochet hook and knitting needle. But, I must admit there have been times that I felt just as frustrated making these fixes as you did (especially garter stitch fixes). Thanks for the effort.