Actually, I've undone crochet several times. You just secure the loop you want to "rewind" to with a paperclip or a stitch counter. Frog away, the "locked" stitch will catch and you can restart from there.
And, yeah, tinking's a bitch. I wasn't quite sure that I had the direction right to begin with, then I missed a loop and... ziiiiip. Instant waste of 16 rows of stitchwork.
Oh -- yeah, you can frog crochet. I do that all the time. What I thought you meant was the thing in knitting where you can sort of undo/reach down the length a vertical row and fix mistakes several rows back *without* frogging. Which you can't do in crochet.
... I think it may be too late for me to parse. You can fix a mistake without undoing the intervening stitches? Is this the Dark Art of Stitchcraft? Even tinking is undoing the stitchwork to get back to the error...
My point was more that, in crochet, I could go "Shit, there's my mistake", hook the stitch before the error, and ziiiiiiiiiip, rewind to that stitch. Seems in knitting, I can either tink back if it's recent, or frog back to that row if I put a strand through the row in question beforehand (which I've not yet tried).
Calm down. Just knit to the first stitch above your mistake and drop the row of stitches down to the mistake. Then pick up the stitckes using a crochet hook in the correct manner. Unfortunately I can't finda video on fixing a dropped purl stitch but these two videos will help.
Eh, by the time I'd posted, I'd already done the frogging. It's still a learning process, but good to know if I screw up the 700th stitch this time, I won't have to re-start again.
Plus, until I work out an even tension that lets me actually feed stitches along the needle as I work, I'm going to need to work on my stitches anyway. ;)
I don't think the needle size is going to make a difference - I tend to cinch the loops tight as I go - that's why I had the long end-loops, all the slack that would have been on the loop ended up traveling along to the left needle as I cinched.
There's something more straightforward about crochet. One hook, one hand, one motion. This knitting, it's all back and forth and stuff, you've got TWO needles (or more!) to keep track of, you're knitting, you're purling... all kinds of crazy.
I know, I know. It's just that 16 rows of stitching was actually hours of work given my slow rate atm, so it was painful to start again from scratch. Haven't been arsed to do more than three rows on the redo, and I'm glad to know that if I screw up again, it's fixable.
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And, yeah, tinking's a bitch. I wasn't quite sure that I had the direction right to begin with, then I missed a loop and... ziiiiip. Instant waste of 16 rows of stitchwork.
Ah, well, I'm getting lots of practice!
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My point was more that, in crochet, I could go "Shit, there's my mistake", hook the stitch before the error, and ziiiiiiiiiip, rewind to that stitch. Seems in knitting, I can either tink back if it's recent, or frog back to that row if I put a strand through the row in question beforehand (which I've not yet tried).
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Fix in stockenette stitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5StTBo8n8k
Fix in garter stitch without a crochet hook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ko61Bi8AWY&feature=related
You can fix
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Plus, until I work out an even tension that lets me actually feed stitches along the needle as I work, I'm going to need to work on my stitches anyway. ;)
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