I’ve been making a lace scarf – it’s my first lace project, so it’s not big, and it’s pretty easy although I’ve learned a few new techniques like beginning rows with slip stitches, making tons of yarn overs and k2togs, etc. It’s my project for knitting on the go or when everything else I have is too particular at the moment and I don’t want to think that hard.
I noticed this morning before I went to work that there was a pouf in the fabric several (read 5-6 and several eyelet rows) inches below the live stitches. When I stopped and looked at the pouf, I realized it was a dropped stitch! Alarm bells went off in my head! Ugh!
I’ve fixed dropped stitches before with a crochet hook, but I’ve never knitted 5-6” down to pick up a dropped stitch – there’s no “ladder” of loose yarn in the “column” because I knit right over the stitch for 5-6 inches so the fabric’s too tight to fix that way. I thought of a couple of other ways to fix it but they wouldn’t work either! I seriously considered frogging back to the dropped stitch and starting over from there. Yuck!
So, I went to ravelry and searched “dropped stitch fix lace” and in a few minutes found an acceptable fix – tie the dropped stitch down by weaving a few inches of matching yarn through the loop of the dropped stitch and weaving the ends of the matching yarn into the back of the scarf. I can do that! Ravelers to the rescue – again!