My old knitting project from 2018 finally got a second chance

I was halfway through a scarf for my sister in my old apartment in Austin when I dropped a stitch and the whole thing started to unravel. I just shoved it in a closet for years, feeling bad every time I saw the bag. Last weekend, I finally sat down with a crochet hook and fixed the mistake in about twenty minutes. What's a project you walked away from that was actually a quick fix?

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jakem981mo agoMost Upvoted

That six year gap between dropping a stitch and fixing it is a whole mood. I get the mental block, but it's funny how we build these things up. I had a wobbly bookshelf I ignored for months because I thought it needed a full rebuild. Turns out it was just one loose screw in the back. Took two minutes with a screwdriver.

lee_carr261mo ago

You said you fixed a dropped stitch with a crochet hook, but that's actually a knitting repair. A crochet hook is a super common tool for fixing a dropped knit stitch, so you were doing it right. It just made me smile because I've had that same mix-up in my head before.

miles_perez1mo ago

Wait, you let a wobbly bookshelf go for MONTHS? That's the real shocker here! I would have been too scared to put anything on it. My brain would just show me pictures of all my books crashing down at 3am. Honestly, fixing a stitch after six years sounds less stressful than living with that daily danger.