How do you start over knitting?

You just pull the needle out from inside your stitches and start unraveling the yarn. If you need to start over completely, this is all you need to do – just make sure to roll your unraveled yarn up into a nice, loose ball as you go along, so you won't end up with a giant tangled mess after everything's ripped out.

Can you unravel knitting and start again?

Time to unravel the piece and you can use the yarn again to work up a new project. Make sure the yarn is washable by hand and not dry clean only as you will need to wash it to not only to clean it, but to get the crinkles out.

What do you do when you finish a row of knitting?

When you get to the end of the row, the needle with the stitches is in your right hand and the empty needle is in the left. To keep going, of course, you turn the knitting over, switch the needle with the stitches to your left hand and the empty needle to your right and keep on knitting.

Can you continue knitting after casting off?

Can you continue knitting after casting off? Not unless you take out the bind off row. You will need to take out the row where you finished off the stitches and place the live stitches back on your needles. If you've already cut the yarn tail, you will need to join a new strand from the working yarn.

Can you Unknit a row?

In order to unknit these rows, you have two options: you can do it by undoing them stitch by stitch, though this option is a bit too slow. Here you have the other option, a much faster one: 1. We recommend you to count how to count rows while you are knitting.

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What does frogging mean in knitting?

In the world of knitting, the term “frogging” means to rip out rows of stitches to get back to where you made a mistake. (Try saying the words “rip it” out loud a few times and you'll begin to understand the origins of its froggy name).

What is knitting Tinking?

Tink is knit spelled backwards, and it refers to undoing one stitch at a time. This is a safe way to undo your knitting because if you do it correctly, you won't drop a stitch. But when you have more than 320 stitches on the needle, as I do, and you have to go back about four rows, as I did, this could take forever.

What's the difference between yarn forward and yarn over?

A "yarn forward" is more commonly the British term, while a "yarn over" is the preferred American term. Pattern writers will shorthand a yarn forward in a variety of ways, some ways are more descriptive than others: "YF," "YFwd," "YFON (yarn forward over needle)," or "YFRN (yarn forward 'round needle)."

What does yo stand for in knitting?

One of the easiest and most common ways to create an extra stitch in knitting is with a yarn over. Not only does this technique increase your stitch count by 1, yarn overs also leave you with a neat little eyelet that can be a decorative increase, an element in lacework, or even a buttonhole.

Is it possible to undo knitting from the cast on edge?

This will feel wrong, but if you need to undo knitting below the needle, you will need to cut away the unwanted knitting. If you try to unravel starting at the cast on edge, you will soon find that the yarn is locked at each stitch. (Unlike unravelling from above the needle, where the stitches undo very easily.)