Being an expert knitter is great. Being an expert knitting teaching is greater. I appreciate your expertise. Thank you.

I always add ‘very pink knits’ to my KZfaq searches for knitting techniques, and it pays off every time! So clear, so concise, so helpful! You are helping me save my sweater, much appreciated.

Also, I have to amend my comment yesterday about the person not being willing to provide support for the entarsia pattern I was attempting. I don't want to give an unwarranted bad impression of a designer. Originally I got the pattern off Pinterest and whoever posted it there said there'd be no support. However, I went to Ravelry, per your suggestion, and the original designer answered my questions immediately. Thank you!!

I've never loved you more!!!! That's how you keep from dropping stitches and starting over! I feel like such an idiot, you have saved my life with this!!!!

I could not knit without your invaluable guidance and videos. This tip in particular - along with my interchangeable circular needle set - saved me weeks of frustration and despair.. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

I usually use just a tapestry needle and scrap yarn but this looks even better and easier. Plus, it gives me an excuse to buy another set of needles. 😁 Thanks for making this video, Staci!

Great tips. These issues are exactly why I've switched exclusively to interchangeable needles. Use a stopper on one end and once the lifeline has been positioned, you just change back to your required needle tips. So easy.

I can't begin to tell you how many projects I have started over because I discovered a mistake, many rows down, and didn't want to frog that much work, stitch by stitch. Thank you for this video!! I am a recent subscriber and I have found so many morsels of goodness in your videos already.

Thank God for you Stacy, and this tip! It’s been awhile since I’ve picked up my needles so I’d started a small ear warmer with cables. I almost gave up on the piece because I couldn’t figure out how to fix a mistake I’d made. Then last night before I went to sleep, I remembered this tip of yours. Slacker that I am, I haven’t bought the circular needle yet so I used a tiny, long bamboo needle instead. It worked great and my ear warmer is saved. Thanks for all you do for the knitting community. Blessings and much love to you this holiday season.

This is such a great tip. I have used over and over again (lots of mistakes) since I first saw this video. Thanks very much for putting it up so clearly!

Thank you for this very helpful video. Not only how to make a life line, but using a smaller needle. Also the rubber band, brilliant! I truly appreciate your tips, they are alway so full of common sense that I wonder why I didn' t think of that.

You're the greatest knit-mistress on the planet and Mars!

This is such a better idea than what I came up with. I did the same thing, but with a tapestry needle threaded with scrape yarn. This way makes it so much easier with the needle to knit back onto after you've ripped back. Thanks!

This is a really good idea and saves soooo much time not having to pick up stitches again. I will have to do this too. Thanks

Great hint to use the size 0 40" circular. Thank you Staci!

This is great. I wish I knew this technique when I made a mistake in my cowl. It was almost done and so nice but I made a huge mistake and the stitch was so complicated I had to start all over again. I will be using this all the time now.

perfect timing! I have had a needle strung through a sweater with a mistake in it and have been too scared to pull down to it for over a year - I now know I need to check that I picked up the right leg all the way across! Thanks Stacey!

Finally ordered a 40" size 0 circular needle after I had need of one the other day and used a 40" size 3 instead (which I got only a couple months ago for socks). This is way easier, I think, than 'sewing' in a reactive life line. And you can knit off of it, too, which is also an advantage. Thank you so much. :-)

Great video! I've had to do this *more than one time, less than, oh 50 or so?* lol... I use interchangeable circular needles for *everything* so when I have to do this, once I get the stitches onto the cable, I can then just switch to the correct size needles and I'm all set again.

Great tip. Wish I had watch this last week. It would have helped me a lot in fixing up a mistake. Thank you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I used this technique yesterday and it saved my project!!

Great idea! I use lifelines all the time. Never heard of this before. Thank you!

Genius! 🧶🧶🧶💕 I needed this yesterday. But at least I found this after a good night’s sleep and stepping away from my knitting needles and clump of yarn. Lesson learned 👊🏻💪🏻👍🏻🙋🏻‍♀️💕🧶💕

Just love this site! It is my go- to place foor any ??? that I have. I’m in a growing knitting group and I always recommend any questions to your site. Love seeing your dogs too.

This is a great idea with small circular needles. TFS. 🌸 I’ve been trying the Portuguese knitting. Making yarn overs and finding out several rows later. So this was very helpful instead of using yarn.

Staci, you always teach me something new! Thanks for another wonderful tip and video.

Wow, guess who will be ordering a very small needle today!!!!! Thankyou once again!

This is a great tutorial. Too bad I didn't know about it about 50 years ago. Can you imagine the many times I just ripped and inserted needle and hoped I got all of them back on correctly . Love your instructions.

Excellent reminder and practical to save time and energy, you're really the best❗️Thanks for sharing🌹🌹🌹

Thank you so much for this video! Once again you save the knitting day!!

I gave you credit on my Facebook knitting group for this technique, I was checking to make sure that I had done it correctly

I just love your videos... I have learned so much from them... Thank you for your time.

Stacyn Thank you for sharing this technique! I love it! I had the opportunity to try it the other day, and it worked like a charm. it's going to be one of my favorite techniques (when necessary ). Again, thanks. I love all your videos! I learn a lot!

Very cool! I will definitely use this technique. Thank you!

Thank you for such a great tip- MUCH better than using crochet hook or upholstery needle to pull waste thread through! Thanks!!!🌱

Love this idea! Thank you so much.

Thank you Staci. This is very helpful.

Superb advice as ever!

Simple and brilliant

And 2 day's later I'm using this technique...Thankyou

thank you! just as I finished watching, I needed this technique

Staci, you are amazing! Fabulous tip....now I need to locate my #1 needle! Thank you, thank you!

Thank you!

I work in the round on fingerless mittens and find myself in this situation more than I would like.....what a great hint !!!

Wow - this is a great idea! Thank you for sharing!

Wonderful explanation as always. Thank you. Going to go out and get a 40” US 0 needle for my tool box.

Wow... !! It's so helpful ! I hate when I have to fix a mistake . Now knowing this way it seems very easy, thanks a lot!

That is very cool! I'll be using this from now on...thanks!

I would love to win these needles. I'm always searching for the perfect dpn's and these look great. Great videos Staci. Love your clear and concise formats.

Thanks for the awesome tutorial!

What a great idea! Much easier than using a fine thread for a lifeline...

Oh gosh-thank you for this!

You're videos are fantastic My greatest source of learning knitting techniques..I have made your double cuff beanie ..Thankyou

Thank you very much! Way better than running piece of scrapyarn through my work!

Great tutorial, as usual!! Thank you!

What great idea!

Great, great idea...thanks

I love all the hints and tips, how about some for organizing all the knitting supplies and yes, stash, although now working on your advice to get the level down, Thanks, love it all!

such a great idea! thanks! love you videos!!

Stacy, Thank you for this video. I love the idea of the long size 0 needle - a great idea. I wonder if you'd consider a video showing how to do this on a piece with both knits and purls to pick up. Try as I might, I still have trouble picking up those purls when doing a lifeline this way. Thanks for your great instructions. I find myself coming back over and over for things I tend to forget. Great job!

This is really a great tip! Thank you so much!

Thank you. That's very helpful

Awesome!! Thank you!

From Argentina: I love your dogs.

This is a fantastic tip, thank you so much for showing it, I feel better already :) !!

That is so great!

Excellent!

This helped me so much. Thank you for the video!!

Your explaine is so easy thank you very much

It's good to know, that even the professionals make mistakes sometimes! Lol!

Love this!

This is so funny, because it's exactly what I did on a pair of complicated cabled socks while doing it on a size zero needle and I had to be very careful to pick up the right leg on the same row 😀

Hi Staci, and thanks for all your great videos! I'm knitting a sleeve (top-down, on circular needles), and now that I tried it on I think I need to reconfigure the shaping. Can I use this technique to secure the stitches around the base of the armpit - even though, because it's in the round, it's a big spiral? Many thanks!

I do this as well!

Thank you! This is just what I needed now as I have to unravel six rows on a circular needle. I must admit I crossed all my fingers on you turning your work around though, so I could have seen which part of the purled stitches you’d pick up on the extra needle (as I’ve got pattern with both knit and purl). An idea for a future video, perhaps? 😊

Fantastic tip!!! Thank you Staci!!

You make it so easy! I always tink, even if it's multiple rows, unless I have made and found the mistake early on, then I will just rip out and start over, what a pain. I will try this next time. Thank you! I have a pattern kit which I purchased. The instructions say: Row 2: (WS) Loop n’lock, with the explanation of "loop n’ lock: Pull yarn from the last section worked on the previous row. , Lock it into place with the first stitch of the next row to form a Loop." I don't get it, I'm more of a visual learner and you explain things so well, which is why you are my go to help. Do you have a video that you can point me towards that explains this? Thanks!

Wish it was that easy to go back and fix mistakes when knitting lace lol .... Mmmm Staci have you got any tricks for fixing lace? I mean other than lifelines, perhaps fixing missed yarn overs etc would love a video on that!!

Thank you so much Traci. Is there an easy way to put that lifeline in garter stitch. That seems to give me more trouble. Diane from Boston

For someone who knits left handed/mirrored, would I put the needle into the left leg of the stitch so they wouldn’t be twisted? I’m brand new to all of this and need to go back to fix a mistake in a sweater and would be devastate to rip it back and realize I did it wrong! Thank you so much!

Thank you for such a useful video!! I've tried this before but always end up with some stitches on a row above or below...could you possibly do a video on what to do when that happens?

Love this tip but I want to know if it’s any easier finding the stitches in the same row on the wrong side, purl side?

Thanks for another brilliant video, you said it would be easier to "drop this column" to fix the mistake, do you have a video on that technique you could point me towards as it's not something I've heard of before. x

Excellent as usual! Now please show how to recover lace stitches. I restarted one piece over 10 times die to faulty yarnovers...and could never find the place/reason I goofed.

Thanks! I ripped out stitches from increases now I have yarn loose on two sides! :(

Hi! I'm working on the toe of TAAT Toe up sock. I used KfB for increases...how do I put a reactive lifeline w/increases? I can't see exactly where to put it on the end of the row!). Any thoughts on what I'm looking for (I was having a bad toe up day -used 2 cast on methods (I am an avid sock knitter -I think it's COVID brain!) and finally I got things going and I made a mistake but do NOT want to cast on again (for a few days LOL)...any thoughts! LOVE the slo mo videos!!! So helpful

Hey whoa. When you were knitting back onto the double-pointed needle, you wrapped the yarn 2x. I've never seen that. Can you elaborate?

OMG ❤️❤️❤️

when making the log cabin blanket how come I can't get mine to lie flat in the middle

Why does it look like your in the left side of the V?

This is a really good idea and saves soooo much time not having to pick up stitches again. I will have to do this too. Thanks

Thank you!