if you would like to request the video send an email to questions and new stitch add a comm how to knit ripping back stitches or froggy special thanks to our sponsor Lion Brand for providing today's yarn today we are using their vanna's choice line in the color aqua sometimes in your work you'll realize that you've made a mistake a few rows down and you'll have to do what's called ripping back or sometimes it's called frogging because you rip it rip it rip it rip it so generally what you'll do is you'll take your needle out and then just start pulling on the stitches but the problem with that is you end up with a bunch of live stitches that are a little bit difficult to deal with so one way to get around that is to use another needle to place stitches below where you want on to and then you can rip to that so the way to do this is we're going to open up the stitches here and you can see in between this is garter stitch we've got all these stitches here and we're just going to take the needle and thread it through each stitch so you'd want to do this below the row where you've got your problem so what we're doing is we're grabbing the right leg of each stitch in the row and threading it along and you could also do this with a darning needle and some waste yarn and use it kind of like a lifeline if that's a little bit easier for you all right so once you've got all of the stitches threaded onto your work you can take out your main needle and then you're going to take your working yarn and just pull the stitches out okay and then once you can't pull them out anymore you've already got your stitches in place to go back to knitting okay and that's how you rip out your stitches one more news - today check out our website at new stitch DICOM new stitch day is a crafty media production check out our other shows at fiber story TV and yarn tripper calm this video is licensed under a creative commons attribution-noderivs 3.0 unported license which means use it on your web site put it in your patterns but please don't change anything