I’m still a beginner and I had no idea you aren’t supposed to pull the needles apart! Nobody has ever mentioned that before. No wonder my edges look like that! Thank you💕

This is the only video I’ve been able find that has addressed my problem of the loop at the end of my first row. Thank you so much

Thank you! These things have been driving me crazy. I knew I was doing something wrong but I couldn't figure out what. You showed me exactly what I was doing wrong.

As w/others, my issues were sloppy stitches at the beg of the row, including that dreaded CO loop (thank you SO much for resolving THIS problem...it'd been haunting me since I first learned to knit (self-taught...and because so, I've developed a slew of bad habits). My CO edge was another nightmare (picking up stitches...? ha!...impossible). It didn't matter if I knitted these sts on the RS and slipped them on the WS, they ALWAYS turned out loose and messy, causing my efforts to appear uncaring and lazy. Though I began knitting YEARS ago, I've limited myself to accessories, shying away from anything garment-wise because I was so unhappy w/my work and didn't want to waste quality yarn. You've removed an IMMENSE amount of frustration I've had with this craft and now I am excited about knitting my first pullover! THANK YOU!!! I'll be sure to seek you out on Ravelry!

The little bit of material I'm working with currently looks like all of these problems in one. :/ This video helped me recognize my faults.

I’m a beginner who was being driven crazy by those ugly loops at the end and why I was having trouble with the first row of cast-on “stitches”. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this. I was getting discouraged with going further. Now I’m excited to keep at it and learn more!!!

pulling the needles apart! I didn't even realize I was doing this, no wonder I was having issues! nobody has mentioned this on any video I've found and I can't thank you enough for your help :)

Thank you, Roxanne for sharing your expertise, on fixing knitting mistakes!! I love your videos!! ❤

Thank you for taking the time to explain and show the examples, helped me immensely.

Thank you so much. I am a beginner. I was getting so discouraged because after the first two rows the rest looks great. Now I will be able to knit a few Christmas presents for special loved ones. You are a great instructor!

❤Thank you for the idea to tighten up after the 3rd stitch. I’m very happy with my edges now.

Extremely helpful video. Have literally ripped out lots of work because I hated the big loops that were developing by the end of the row. I started learning to knit a couple of weeks ago

This video helped me so much! Ive just started knitting and couldn’t figure out why I had such loose and wide stitches. Thank you very much! I appreciate your help!

Roxanne, I can always count on you for spot-on advice! I am in the process of making prototypes of layette pieces for my first granddaughter, and am utilizing a slip stitch selvedge edge. I had been finding that my selvedge edges were a bit messy, and so I came to you via KZfaq for advice. Paying more attention to the second stitch mount for adding that little bit of extra tension completely solved my issue; the results are a million times better. Thank you!!!

I just started knitting this year and this helped with sooo many of the issues I am having. Very good descriptions and examples, thank you!

I have been working with a couple of students with the ‘loosy goosy every other row’problem... your solutions really gave me multiple solutions. Thank you.

Excellent suggestions! Thanks for sharing. I wish I had viewed this last year. Fortunately, I discovered the push versus pull of stitches off the needle by working with brioche. Because I was pulling the stitches originally, the whole fabric ended up being super tight and "leaned" to the right. Keep up the great teaching!

Thank you so much! I'm a beginner knitter and this helped me with several of my problems!

I just wanted to thank you so so much for this video. I searched through the entire internet in my native language and found nothing about the issue with those huge loops at the end of the rows. It's 2021 and you're still our (beginners) only hope ;)

This was really helpful in so many different ways, thank you!! I really appreciate you helping out myself and others with your time. Thanks again.

I just wanted to thank you for this video, as I now know that I was pulling the needles too far about. I am so pleased to be fix it, thank you so much!

Thanks again for your wonderful advice.

Thank you so much! My edges where pulling up and making a weird loop and i couldn't figure it out. I had no idea that the needles weren't supposed to be pulled apart

It makes sense! Thank you for your help. You prevented some bad habits!

This is a really comprehensive and clearly presented video! Thank you!!

THE ONLY VIDEO ADRESSING THISSS THANK YOU!!!!

thank you for explaining how this problem happens. I didn't know how to explain the problem I'm having, but you took care of my unspoken problem perfectly. this video is great.

Thank you so much. I am working on my Level One Masters and your videos have been extremely helpful!

This was super helpful. I didn't realize I was pulling so much. Thanks!

OMG Thank you for helping me identify my bad knitting habits. I was ending up with those huge loops at the end of my rows. Thanks to you and this video, turns out I am a needle pull apart-er and I work too low down the needles.

Your knowledge is gold. Thank you.

Wow, I have all these problems, and this has helped! Saving your videos. You are amazing.

I am so grateful that this video was suggested to me! I had no idea that how close your needles are mattered so much! I'm really enjoying knitting but I've been worried since I could see some of these problems developing in my tester. Thank you for the clear demonstrations!

Thank you so much. I have searched and searched and haven't been able to fond a solution to this problem that has plagued me since I started I finally got an answer it my tension and I'm pulling and I didin't even know that was the problem, but when you explain it it makes perfect sense. I was trying to tighten up the last stich.

Thank you for addressing the slack issue, I’ve been stuck on the first row for so long because I could never understand why I would get a big loop where it shouldn’t have been. :)

THANK YOU!!! I have just started knitting and I've found your video to be so helpful!! :D

Thank you for this excellent video! I believe I have discovered why I sometimes experience the problems covered in the video and appreciate the solutions suggested.

Thank you for this video I am just learning but I like to watch what can go wrong so I can avoid doing the bad things. Much Love and blessings ❤️

Thank you so much for this video! As others have said, this is the only video that responded to the issues I've came across!!!

Im just starting to learn, this video showed me so many ways to correct my technique, it was very helpful. Thank you so much 😊

This was very helpful for someone just starting to learn knitting. Many of the tutorials I watched used the slip stitch so I always ended up with the long string in-between the needle and I no idea what I was doing wrong.

Very helpful! Thank you for this video. I’ve had similar problems and have been mystified by them.

Thank you so much for this! I always seem to end up with a sizeable loop at the end of my rows -- particularly purl rows -- and I couldn't see why. I'll have to watch myself next time I knit to see if I pull the needles apart at all or knit too far down. (I know I've definitely been guilty of the latter!) Thanks for always having a video to help me understand all these nuances as I learn!

Excellent video! These tips improved my edges immediately. Thank you :)

Thank you!!! I was having problems with both having the loop at the end and sloppy edging, now I see what I was doing wrong! 👍🙂

Very helpful, you just solved 2 of my problems, thank you.

Knitting really, really tightly at the beginning of the row fixed this for me. I read this somewhere, either in a Vogue Knitting magazine or in the Big Book of Knitting. They explained it as being caused by (and I can't remember this exactly; I might have it backwards) pushing loose yarn ahead in one row, either at the beginning or the end, and making it up by tightening stitches at one end, either the beginning or the end. This was years ago, and I forgot which it was. And I didn't knit for a few years. So here I am knitting silk and at the end of the row the stitches are loose and messy. So I tried both --- tightening at the end or tightening at the beginning. Tightening at the beginning of each row worked for me. And I'm sorry I don't know why, but I know I read it somewhere in what I consider to be an authoritative source on knitting. Now, I can't remember the explanation, but there was one, and it made sense, but in a surprising way. Ah, watching you I think I saw it. The loose yarn at the end of one row CAN be alleviated by tight knitting at the beginning of the NEXT row. It pulls that extra yarn into the next row where you knitted the really tight stitches. And that's how it works for me. I pull the first stitch as tight as possible, the next almost that tight, and the third also tight. And then I knit normally, and when I've worked several rows, the ends of the rows are fine and so are the beginnings. It all works out.

Thank you! You rock Rox!

Thank you for your video about it. Now I know which stitch I should tight more.

Thank you for a great explanation. My knitting has already improved! ❤

I started a project to day and my 2nd and 3rd stiches were awful and I didn´t know why. I think this video will safe me, thank you!

Great comment about stretching and pulling the needles apart. I’ve seen some videos, particularly from yarn companies, seem to purposely pull every stitch stretching the yarn. I never thought about what that could do! I’m probably past that (a little past it) but my daughter wants me to teach her knitting. It’ll be careful about this when I work with her! Thank you for all the great information I’ve learned from your help!

Thank you for your vids. Nicely produced.

Thank you soo much , I'm new to knitting and you helped me soo much

Wow all good tips and advice.

Solved my beginner problem.brilliant thank you

I just started teaching myself to knit. Holding needles too far apart. Watching this saved me a lot of grief!

Thank you thank you thank you! You explained exactly everything that I’m doing wrong! :)

Thank you so much for this! I just started knitting 3 days ago and couldn't figure out for the life of me what I've been doing wrong. This is been so helpful ❤️

Yay, this has been baffling me for some time. Know I know. Thank you!

I'm so glad I'm not alone with these edge stitch problems! Thanks so much Roxanne for clearing up these edge stitch problems. It just breaks your heart when you've found a wonderful pattern to knit but you feel like an imbecile because you know that some simple issue is going to make your beautiful garment look like an ameteur made it.

Great advice I sometimes have loose edges. Now I know why😃

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This video has been super helpful :)

Thank you for your great advice

As someone who just finished my first baby blanket and ended up quite disappointed in how it turned out----THANK YOU. You called out so many bad habits I didn't realize I picked up in my self-teaching.

ah this was amazing thank you....so much great advice

Happens to me...Great advice!

This video is so helpful! Thank you!♡♡

This video is great! I'm definitely guilty of all of these! All I can do is practice. Thank you very much 😊

Thank you! I have this problem but didn't now it was a problem!

This was so helpful. Thank you!

Thank you! That was helpful

So helpful!!

Thank you so much!! This has solved my problem!

Very helpful.

Very helpful video. :0 I would like to try some of these next time, particularly the one where you tightened to yarn to pull out slack, and the one where you just take out the first casted on stitch because I sort of notice that my first stitch is always more or less loose.

So helpful, thank you!

Thanks so much this fixed my problem perfectly 😁

Thank you so much!!

Thank you!

For other type of mistakes, like you have a wrong stitch somewhere, like a purl instead of a knit, you may undo just that column ahead the wrong stitch. Then using a crochet it's easy to correct the mistake, and of course redo all the other stitches. It's much easier to correct on the knit part than the purl part (in a stockinette). This works easier when you are not too far away, 5-6 rows it's OK. In the same way the edges may be corrected. It's even easier than a stitch in the middle of a row. But if you have to large stitches on some rows, you need to undo up to the loose loops and try again. Loose lops can't be corrected.

You are the best I have been getting so frustrated trying to learn how to knit, I didn't realize I was causing my own problems by separating the needles so much

I've made sweaters before so I made one for Christmas. When I went to sew it together the bound off shoulder seams etc...I couldn't tell what was what..when i tried to sew it together it was just a huge mess and he didn't end up getting the sweater for Christmas. I was really disappointed.

You are amazing.

thank you very much

I’m knitting a blanket and want to add a border when I’m done. I know how to pick up and knit. My question is do you pick up and knit one side at a time. Jeanne

Hi there! Thank you for your video. The only way to correct the loose loop is to go back and reverse knit to the row below?

Thanks!

I think that loose edge stitches are a feature of continental knitting. I knit both ways but always start off my rows with the yarn in my right hand to avoid the problem of a loose start. Also to tighten up a loose last stitch I sometimes wrap the yarn clockwise instead of the usual anti clockwise.

Thanks again🌸🌼🌹

This video helped me finally! Thank you!

Thanks Roxanne, now I know what I did wrong that made my edges messy for the last few rows of my work, is there a way to fix it? Thanks so much I'll be practicing not dragging my stitches off the LH needle anymore and think of YOU!

Hi, my uneven stitch’s are at the end of the row looks like your beginning. Thanks

Sooooo glad I found your site. My problem is loose stitches on a short row on a cap sleeve. Even an instructor can't figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong. My short rows for making a slanted shoulder are fine. Please, any ideas?

In my attempts at cable stitch I have to pull needles apart to get the cable needle into play. ? Anyway of not stretching yarn you could suggest?

Thank you for solving my last loose stitch problem. I have it on every row! I have a related problem... I am using a slipped stitch pattern with two colors of yarn. I am slipping the first stitch of every row to create a salvage edge for later picking up stitches. My problem is that the side where I switch the yarn to the next color I pull tighter and so the salvage edge is narrower(stitches are tight) while on the other side I just turn and purl back with the same color, the edge has big loops on the stitches (wider column). I realize I am pulling too tight on the other end, but is there something different I can do while slipping that first stitch and changing the yarn? I am sorry if I am not asking this clearly enough.

Can you help with picking up sts from a stitch holder on a sleeve knitted in a round the pick up sts are uneven and leave an uneven row so you can see where the stitches have been picked up

I have knitted a dress for my little grandaughter. I'm doing the NECKBAND. JOINING SHOULDER SEAMS. PICKING UP AND KNITTING 12 sts evenly along left sideof back neck. 18 sts evenly along left side of neck 10 sts from front of neck 18 sts evenly along right side of neck and 12 sts evenly along right side of back neck. ( 70 ) sts. Work 4 rows in g-st. Cast off knitways.

I often have a problem with stitches being both too tight in the row it's hard to knit into but the end loop is too loose with a bunch of slack. this is more so when alternating rows of purl and knit doing a current zig zag pattern blanket. Its difficult to maintain the same tension in purl as with knit and to switch to bigger needles between rows would be too tedious and as the rows are 230sts long and would be at risk of dropping a stitch. how else can I fix this? is there a video on this?

Hi was wondering where I would asked help on a particle problem. Thank you jeanne.