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Knit Tutorial - Dropping Stitches
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Dropping stitches is an act most of us have done without even trying:
it happens when a stitch falls from your needle and creates a run in the fabric.
When you don't want it to happen, your best bet is to use a crochet hook to hook
the stitches back up onto your needle. However, sometimes you may want to
drop stitches on purpose to create an easy-to-work lacy knitted fabric.
Here's how:
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Step 1: Knit (or purl) until you reach the
stitch you'd like to drop. |
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Step 2: Grab the stitch off the needle. |
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Step 3: Let it go! You may find that
you need to work a bit at unraveling the stitches. Note:
It is an evil irony of the universe that when you drop a stitch
inadvertently, very little effort is required for it to run to the bottom of
your work, but when you want to drop a stitch on purpose, you will spend
lots of time trying to unravel your stitches. |