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Extra stitches in baby blanket...

18 years ago

Hello: I'm knitting a self-bordering baby with two different colors of velvet chunky yarn in garter stitch size 11 needles . The first and last 5 stitces are in one color and in between I pick up the second yarn and knit them both together. I'm about 1/4 of the way into this blanket and have noticed that I have somehow added 2 stitches which at this point doesn't seem to have made much difference. My question is do I attempt to correct this and how do I do it?

THanks for your advice!

Van

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donna_loomis
18 years ago
Well, that's a toughy. My first thought would be to frog back to the error and do it right. After all, you saw the error, maybe someone else will too. And even if they don't, you will always know that you could have done a better job. But, if you're pretty sure nobody else is going to notice it, you could just make two decreases in inconspicuous places and go on from there.

It's not as scary as you might think to frog back to an error. Just thread a yarn needle with an appropriate length of contrasting yarn and weave through all the stitches on a row just prior to the error and unravel to that row and just slip the stitches back onto your needle(s).
sheilajoyce_gw
18 years ago
I would rip it out to the correct number of stitches. You will be much happier with the end product.
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