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TECHNIQUES
MISTAKES AND
HOW TO FIX THEM
WORKSHOP WITH JO ALLPORT
PART 4 : YARN OVERS AND MORE
Finding you’ve made a mistake in a complicated lace pattern can be a nailbiting moment.
Will you ever be able to fix it? Here are some helpful hints.
MISSING A YARN OVER 1
You’ve spotted this because the stitch count
is incorrect, or the pattern looks wrong.
Here’s a tip: it’s always useful to look at
the right side of your work at the end of
every round or wrong-side row to check it’s
coming out as you expect.
Assuming the yarn over is only one row
ago and you are on the next row, whether
it’s a circular or flat knit, then work to the
position where the yarn over should be and
pick up the bar between the stitches in the
row below. Then simply treat it as if it was
the yarn over. It may be a bit tight, but with
a bit of teasing of the stitches either side of
this created yarn over, your lace hole should
be fine.
If the missing yarn over is a few rows below,
then depending on your confidence and the
stitch pattern, you may be able to ‘create
the stitch’ from the bar, then use a crochet
hook to feed through the bars as described
in earlier Masterclasses. Again, the stitches
may be a little tight, but easing the tightness
across the stitches either side should make it
a bit more flexible.
Here I go through the steps to fix a missing
yarn over. The first pattern is complete
and there are five lace holes. In the second
pattern repeat the first three holes are there,
but the next one is missing.
- The yarn over has been missed on the
previous RS row. So instead of having 8 sts
for the pattern there are only 7.
2. I have knitted to the position where the
yarn over should be, working the decrease
as in the pattern. You can see the column
of lace holes (three of them), then there is
no lace hole – instead there are three ‘bars’
between the stitches on the RH and LH
needles. This is the position where the lace
hole should be. - Pick up the top two bars (as it’s only two
rows back where the mistake has been
made) with your LH needle, from front to
back. The bottom bar is the one that will be
used to create the yarn over. The second bar
will be the equivalent of the purl st on the
last row.
4. Take the tip of the RH needle and take
the furthest away bar over the one closest
to the tip.
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