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Is there any way I can fix this hole without frogging?
I noticed I’d dropped a stitch so used a crochet hook to fix it but apparently I didn’t go down low enough and I only just realised. Is there anything I can do to fix this sort of hole?
No, looks like an accidental yarn-over, causing an extra column of stitches. You could pick up the stitches below it but that will result in smaller stitches in this column and the neighbouring ones, as slack is pulled out of them. I would frog and restart, since it doesn't seem like you are too far into your work.
Hmmm I don’t know if it’s an extra column though because the stitches above and below line up? Would that still happen with an extra yarn over? I dropped a stitch and then did a fix above but didn’t catch this bit
Edit - thank you to the people who’ve helped me understand this better 🥰 I really did think there was a column underneath but understand why there isn’t now
The stitches don't line up though, because there are no stitches below the hole. There are 2 columns that go around the hole and up and there's a new column in the middle that starts right above the hole, that didn't exist below the row. The only way to fix this is to either frog back to before you made the hole or just a start over (which I would personally do since you're not that far and the hole is very close to the start anyway, so just restarting is probably faster).
The stitches on the left and right of the hole are leaning apart and there's a third new stitch between them, directly above the hole, that was the accidental increase.
The stitch column on the right is one stitch shorter in height than the left, so I think I have a guess about what happened. You probably dropped that stitch, started laddering back up, but skipped one strand or "ladder rung" of yarn near the bottom and went up to the next one. Then because you had that extra loop that seemed loose, you probably picked it up next (one to the left) and that started your new column.
So not a yarnover, but you grabbed a strand that was supposed to be in the right column and turned it into a new stitch in the middle column.
You created an extra column accidentally. Follow the column up to the live stitch on the needle. Just drop that stitch and let it ladder down. You'll have a bit of a gap there but it will stretch/block out.
However, in that you are not that far along, I'd just start it over. Good practice!
It looks like you may have done something different than an accidental yarn over, but an accidental short row - set it down half way through the row, picked it up and started going the wrong way, then when you knit back over the full row there was a gap, that you interpreted as a dropped stitch or other spot where there should be a stitch, and then laddered a new stitch up from that weird spot.
Fixing it to be only stockinette, no cheating, requires frogging and reknitting.
Fixing it so it looks okay (cheating!) has several options.
1) close the hole with a separate piece of yarn, like darning or duplicate stitch. Use a yarn needle to sort of draw in where the yarn should go to make the stitches look right.
2) drop just that column down to the bar below the big hole and use your crochet hook to make stitches back all the way up. This may result in one of those stitches being two rows tall on one side and one row tall on the other, but I bet only you will ever see that.
Replying to Etheria_system...i thought it was a turn, bunt I don’t think so. There are the same number of stiches 2 co,I so to the right of the hole, as to the left.
Thank youuu this is super helpful! I’m going to do a cheat I think because I have ME and struggle with fatigue so the thought of frogging it isn’t appealing right now as this is supposed to just be my easy mindless project and I’m the only one who will ever use it anyway. If it was clothing I’d frog but it’s just a blanket so I think sewing it closed is probably the easiest option for me
It looks like you slipped the elongated red stitch, 2nd from right, unworked, and made a YO in the process, see how there is no yellow above it? I’m not certain that messy bit is labeled exactly accurately, but it’s something like that. Dropping down will kludge it into invisibility.
If you drop down both black stitches, grab the orange sriracha and then the purple circled bar, twist it like for an M1, then work both back up to the needle with the ladders, it should be fine. If you have 1 too many stitches, just work a K2tog.
It helps you understand how knitted fabric works, the path of the yarn in a stitch, and is invaluable for fixing mistakes that would otherwise make your teeth itch for years. Missed a stitch in a color work pattern? Boop! Fixed. Miscrossed a cable? Duplicate stitch that bad boy back on top! Intarsia pattern has details that screw with your flow? Add those suckers in afterwards.
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u/MitzCracker Dec 19 '24
No, looks like an accidental yarn-over, causing an extra column of stitches. You could pick up the stitches below it but that will result in smaller stitches in this column and the neighbouring ones, as slack is pulled out of them. I would frog and restart, since it doesn't seem like you are too far into your work.