Article How to Fix Common Knitting Mistakes

There’s nothing worse than coming to a complete knitting standstill because you’ve realized you made a mistake in your knitting. You scream, you curse, and often you’re ready to give up. We’ve all been there so don’t beat yourself up. Making a mistake is part of the learning process.

Today, we’ll talk about common knitting mistakes beginner knitters make. We’ll teach you how to spot them, how to correct them, and, more importantly, get you back to knitting.

Let’s talk about some of the mistakes many knitters commonly make.

When You Keep Losing Count Of Your Stitches

Working with any number of stitches, it is easy to lose count. There are a couple of simple ways you can fix this.

What You Can Do:

• If you’re working without a pattern or just practicing, cast-on with a small, even number of stitches. It’ll be easier to keep track of your count.

• Better yet, you could add knitting stitch markers to keep track. This will also ensure that you’re not accidentally adding or dropping stitches.

Better to be safe than sorry, right?

In the image below, you can see three stitch markers. Two are orange and one is yellow. The yellow marker indicates the beginning of the round. This pattern I'm working calls for 150 stitches, so I've marked every 50 to check my count.

You can mark in quantities that work for you after all placing your markers can be a personal choice or a pattern requirement and there's nothing wrong with marking every 10 or 20 stitches it is after all whatever works best for you.