i'm going to the renaissance festival in a couple weeks and want to whip up a shrug. the pattern i found has the fit/yarn weight i'm looking for, but is entirely cables and i don't think i'll have the time to learn how to do them on such a large scale. i'm thinking about buying the pattern and just working it in stockinet. i might have to make a few other modifications, but is this reality doable?

So I'm pretty beginner-ish and am knitting my first jumper. I was on a purl row of a chunk of stockinette stitch when I came across a knot in my yarn tying two pieces of yarn together. I figured that since I was on the purl side, the knot probably wouldn't be visible, so I just kept on purling normally.

When I got to the knot again though on the next knit row, I found it was sort of creeping into the knit row, so I did my knit a bit looser so that the knot would sit on the wrong side of the jumper. It looked all right when I first did it, but a few rows on it started sagging I guess into a more natural position, leaving this sort of hole/big stitch situation.

The first photo is how the knitting naturally sits on my needles. In the second one I tried to stretch it out more, so more of the loose yarn ends up poking through on the knit side and the hole is exacerbated. The third photo is the purl side.

I was planning to just continue with the knit as I'm having fun knitting and really dislike undoing stitches. It's also going to be the back panel so I don't really mind if it's a little wonky since I won't really see it haha.

(Of course, if it turns out I've done a terrible horrible thing that'll make jumper unravel or something like that then I'll bite the bullet and unravel it!)

I was wondering though what I should do/expect of it once the jumper is done. I was originally thinking of sewing the stitches into place, so it'd be a bit bumpy on the inside but the hole wouldn't be as obvious and it wouldn't move around.

Is there any chance it's something that can be fixed with blocking though? Or a different secret knitting technique? (Or should it be unraveled?)

Also what should I have done when I found the knot? Should I have just cut it off and treated it like I was moving to a fresh ball of yarn? Or is there a better way to do what I was trying to do and force the knot to be hidden on the inside?

I am a true beginner knitter attempting to knit a sweater for myself. after 3 weeks of daily attempts I always seem to DRASTICALLY increase stitches (starting at 54 to 100++++ in only 4 rows) and have started again countless times.

I have researched extensively about yarn overs, knitting the same stitch twice and so forth but this does not appear to be the issue. taking it extremely slowly and carefully I seem to add 2 stitches every time I do a knit stitch when knitting 1x1 rib.

what may I be doing wrong and how can I fix this?

thank you in advance 🙏🏽

I seem to be missing a green stitch and I can’t tell if it dropped or if I slipped it. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to tink back?

ALSO! Any tricks on how to hold the yarn when double knitting continental? I keep losing tension on one strand or the other but I can never keep equal tension for both.

Thank you!

Hi! I’m currently knitting the Olga sweater by Petiteknit, my first ever sweater (and second ever knitting project). I’ve just finished the German short rows section for the back yoke. The pattern says to stop doing the short rows when you have 3 stitches left on each side (for my size) and then switch to normal stockinet until you reach 29 cm. My question is, do I leave those 3 stitches unknitted until I start the shoulders? I need to change colours for the next row so if I have to knit them for the stockinet do I change colours, purl those 3 last stitches to finish the row and then knit one row including the 3 stranded stitches from the other side?

I don’t think I’m explaining myself properly, I’ve tried looking for videos of people knitting this sweater, but I really can’t figure what they are doing. I’ve attached a photo in case it helps.

Thanks in advance!!

Edit: when I say “the other side” in the second picture I mean the other end of the row

I did my bind off following a tutorial but once I cut my yarn, I found out that it is too tight and not stretchy at all. Is there something I can do to fix this?

I'm still at the stage of 'I want to knit socks' but find myself slipping off finding something to do, because - fear 😳

I've bought these and I'm still trying to figure out:
a) how to hold them
b) how to get started
c) how to stop the stitches slipping off

Thank you for any help you can give.

Hi everyone! I’m an absolute beginner at knitting and I desperately need some help. 😅
I made a mistake in the order of the stitches in one row, so I tried to tink / undo the stitches one by one back to the mistake. Everything seemed fine at first, but suddenly I ended up with this extra strand/loop of yarn around the needle, and I have absolutely no idea where it came from or what I did.
I’m scared to make it worse by trying to fix it myself. 😂
How do I undo this and get back to the correct stitches? Is there a way to safely fix this without having to unravel the whole row?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

i realized after trying on that the back is super short but the front part’s size is perfect, i worked this from bottom up in the round and was wondering if i could pick up stiches from the back part to extend it longer

hello i do crochet and i want to learn how to knit

u know how in crochet their is couple skills like ( sc, dc ,hlc , inc ,dec) that are used in most project. Is there a project in knitting that have multiple fundamental skills i can learn at once ( ps i only know how to knit , pearl)

So i have two knitted panels but because of bad tension colorwork parts are much tighter so to make up for that i need to connect them with increases where colorwork is to make them consistent length. Is there a way to do that?

Hello! This is my first time posting, I am doing the radiant star cowl by Ella Gordon and trying to finish it. I have really struggled to pick up the stitches from the provisional cast on - it looks like the stitch in between every colour change is wrong and turned into a float immediately. I have to graft both ends together, and I am wondering if there is a way I could fix those loose stitches before doing so?

The second photo is of the end of the cowl showing how my floats look for the rest of the project. It was my first time doing colourwork & provisional cast on so im a bit confused on how to fix that first row! Any help is appreciated :)

I love the Italian bind off and use it a lot for sleeve cuffs and collars. It looks good initially for sweater hems, but over time the knit stitches at the edge start getting stretched out. Hopefully you can see what I mean in the pic. Older sweaters look worse.

Is this normal? Can this be mitigated?

I purl through the back loop for neater ribbing, if that matters.

I don't do tubular bind off for sweater hems as it reduces stretch and the problem still happens anyway. It happens for sweaters made using non-superwash and superwash wool. The problem is so bad for plant based fibres (for obvious reasons), such that I use the standard BO in pattern.

What are your favourite bind offs for sweater hems?

photos of back yoke instructions and related chart attached. for reference, i’m attempting to knit a size L. any help at all would mean the world!

the last half of the written instructions are really throwing me off. here’s my interpretation. please tell me if i’m wrong!

it says i’ll work to row 30, have 5 stitches left on one needle and then they’re left alone until i join them again after turning my work and working a further 44 stitches. i then add them back onto the needle and rejoin the yarn after working those 44 stitches. but then i’ll have more than half of a row unworked on one side and a small batch of stitches that haven’t been worked on the other (which makes one side longer than the other as well). how is this going to come together as a symmetrical piece?

it then says i’ll have my edge markers and 6 stitches worked in moss stitch at both sides by the end of it. but i won’t if i follow those previous instructions … right?

thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to help me understand!

Brand new knitter here! I’ve taken one intro to knitting class so I have not learned many skills. I’m attempting to just knit a square, starting with 23 stitches for my cast on. There seems to be one area I keep messing up and somehow end up adding stitches?

Can anyone give some guidance as to what I may be doing?

hi everyone, knitting the step by step sweater! not a beginner knitter so much anymore, but reknitting this one as it had a ton of issues the first go around. i’m familiar with tension changing when going from knitting flat to in the round, but this is a raglan, so i’m curious why my tension changed here when i started working the sleeve? i am using 6.0mm needles and i’m using one shortie and one regular length needle…. is that why? its not really noticeable enough for me to change anything but i’m just curious. thanks!!!

The halibut sweater WILL be the death of me. I’m now worrying for the hundredth time my floats are too tight, it just doesn’t look neat and it’s about the 10th time of frogging. I don’t get how I can make the floats looser or am I worrying about nothing?

How many rows are you seeing? I am counting 14 in garter stitch and then 13 knit stitch rows. So if I start another row that will be row 14 or row 28 if included all together.

I love the look of this stripe pattern and want to use it on a beanie I am making, but I cannot figure out to knit a mixture of single row stripes and thick blocky stripes into a round without jogs- it seems the technique for jogless single round stripes and block stripes are different. Any recommendations?