Cut Your Knitting ... Sweater Rescue 

Great to hear! My goal is to change knitters' lives . . . to help them become more confident and adventurous.

Thanks so much! I am knitting an afghan in four square strips and left out a repeat in one of the squares. Wonderful tip! Was putting it together on my own partially, but glad to have this video to make it crystal clear!

You are so welcome Mumzee. And thank you for your kind remark.

Exactly what I needed to see!!!! Thanks, gonna get at the sweater rescue this weekend

I'm so glad you find it helpful! Thank you for watching.

Thank you may yokoo! I probably won't get tired, though it does take me quite a bit of time to complete one. I'm glad you enjoy learning from me and thank you for the luck you send.

I found this video by chance looking for how sweaters are knit in one piece to no avail. I'm so glad I did. It brightened my day. The end is hilarious. You are too funny Cheryl!

Cheryl, it's a perfect video. Thank you for generously taking your time and creating this important content. I praise you with great praise!!!

If only I knew how to do this when I knitted my Aran sweater and the body was too short. Because I had spun the wool, I was able to gently stretch the jumper the last time I washed it and it solved my problem. One is never too old to learn new techniques. THANK YOU

Sweater rescue indeed! I saved a moth-eaten cashmere by taking the lower sleeves out and reattaching the ribbed cuffs to a convincing 3/4 length. It was very fine gauge, store bought, and I used an embroidery needle with sewing thread instead of circular needles. I don't even knit, but after this successful trial I finally shortened the sleeves of a fair isle sweater I've had for over 20 years and rarely wore because of crazy orangutan sleeves. I couldn't shorten the sleeves from the top because the pattern matched across the sleeves and body. The double layers of yarn (probably some special name for this) made it more complicated but it still turned out looking totally great. I have to say I never expected to be able to do this myself and was plotting to find a knitting friend I could enlist to do it for me. Thanks a bunch!

I'm so glad I found your video, this is just what I needed! I just completed the back panel of a sweater and realized that it will be too short for my boyfriend who has an abnormally large torso! Thank you!

this was just awesome!! helped me rescue my first knitting project really easier than expected... thank you so much!

I've made my whole family a sweater thanks all to you and your techniques helped me a lot in all of my projects I'm so glad I found your channel before I decide to switch on knitting. You also gave me lots of confidence to just do my own thing when I'm knitting and follow my pattern instead of the one written now I'm making my sweaters with no sweats! :) it's still a bit work but with your techniques I'm pretty confident I will have a solution if I made a mistake. Thank you so much

genius! I just posted this video on a knitting site I like. It's called Knitting paradise. Someone asked a question and you had the answer! Love your videos.

Please don't get tired on posting more videos I love learning from you I just wish I can be as good as you. Take care and more luck on your channel.

Oh, thank you SO much! I knitted an Aran sweater for my college-aged daughter. It came out perfect, except that the sleeves are too long. Now I know exactly how to fix it!

LOVE the bloopers at the end! Was NOT expecting that. Thanks so much b/c I just knit a sweater for my son and realized it is too short after finishing it.

When quarantine started I started knitting as something to keep me occupied. Every time I run out of yarn I just attach another ball. I’m on either the 11th or 12th, I don’t remember, and I just have a scarf that almost goes around the whole house. I think cutting it into smaller, usable, scarves is probably the best course of action. Thank you for the tutorial!

This is so helpful thanks so much 🙏🏼 I’m knitting a split back and front vest and I accidentally made the back too short! So glad to find a way that I can just get in there add more and knit back together ❤❤

Thank you so much for this! I made my first sweater last year and wasn't pleased by how long it looked on me, but I've been putting off shortening it for ages out of fear of ruining it. This worked so well!

Thanks for the tip! I'll have a look around.

Thanks a ton Chery . I can finally finish up on making my cap band bigger .

Love the end of your video's you must be a very fun lady to knit with!

This is so perfect Thank you so much for your wonderful technique of fixing a knitted garment. Your voice is so warm and interesting Thank you

Hehehe! I love the bloopers! Thank your for this tutorial! I will use this technique in my knitting for sure!

I really love your channel. You are wonderful! Thank you for this. I needed it!

Wow! This is an amazing and fairly straightforward technique! I just finished an irregular triangle shawl pattern that looks really weird so I plan to use this technique to cut off one of the 3 points that is way too long. I will have to figure out how to finish the edge once I've cut off the long point. I might be able to just add an edge since the stitches on the long cable will be live. Thanks for this video!

you just save a lot of my knitting project with this technique , thank so much for your help

This is such excellent news may yokoo!!! You have a lucky family. When you master a subject is does not mean that you don't make mistakes. It means you know how to fix them.

You are an amazing woman! I admire your skills and sense of humor. I greet you warmly.

love your videos. I started knitting not to long ago and your videos are very helpful. thanks so much.

You are my hero! Great straight forward and to the point video. Thank you.

Omg! Thank you so so so much! I was knitting my first sweater this past month (I cannot read patterns so knit 4 separate pieces) but I accidentally knit the back and front prices as not long piece! So basically I attached the first sleeve and went to attach second sleeve and realised that there was no arm hole! Haha so your video has rescued my sweater! Xoxo

You have a knack for making the scariest things look so easy.

This is sooooo awesome! I never dreamed you could cut knitting. I was freaked out when you grabbed the scissors 😮😮😮😮

I just found you on RU-vid. I love your personality! Your videos are so informative and easy to follow. I've been knitting for 50 years, but there's so much I don't know. I'm kind of an intermediate knitter, but I always ruin things by my novice finishing. I'm so thrilled to be learning from you! By the way, your sweater is gorgeous! Did you make it?

Amazing! I have at least one sweater on which I will try this to lengthen it. Thank you for the clear and easy to follow directions. 🧶

after a loooong painful search I found this awesome video! thank you very much, I just learned something really good! and by the way..you're very lovely :)

you're great. appreciate the vocal warm-ups. i get a bit freaked out by altering knitting. to wear a heavy sweater which is too tight (ribs too thick and neck now too tight) im going to flatten out the ribs to make a front - and maybe a back no-rib panel

Thank you - that was so well demonstrated. Have saved this video for when I need to use this technique. :)

This is a life safer. I knit the back shorter than the front, now I can easily fix it. Phew .... Thank you from Australia : )

I need to shorten up the sleeves and body of a cardigan but there is already a button band added vertically. I read in one of your comments to a viewer about undoing the seaming for the ribbing up to where I want to cut which helped so I can do that on sleeves and body but wasn't sure what to do with button band which was a pick up and knit button band. I cut a sweater years ago (30 years ago) and didn't remember how to do it so I REALLY appreciate your video instruction. Thank you.

This saved a steeked colorwork cardigan that was about five inches too long. Thanks!

What a life saver! Thank you so much for this video.

Glad you stopped by Rhea! Even if it was by accident.

Great Gable Young! Good luck. It's really not hard to do.

That's amazing! Thank you

Thanks, just knit a wonderful wallaby sweater but it is a little too short for my taste. Now I have the courage to cut it to make it longer.

Hey! It has been a while since this video has been uploaded but I was wondering if I could somehow use this technique to make one buttonhole that I forgot to do? Or is there a better solution for the problem?

Thank you puffyjo.

sound check at the end....you're silly...that was too funny lol Have a blessed day.

Can a side edge be cut if sweater is too wide. Thank you for the tutorial never knew you could cut knitted items. Awesome.

how exactlye would this work with a piece knitted in the round? so far as finding the beginning and the end while working from the middle? is that not important?

Hello Ms. Brunette. Loved the video and hope you are still doing alright after all these years xx

Thank you. Excellent video.

Thank you for this lovely comment may yokoo. And you are welcome.

This is great. I wanted to make my sweater long. Hope this will help.Thanks😊

Hi! Cheryl, just come across your videos which are amazing. I am new to knitting and just do knit & purls and I am making a cardigan with raglan sleeves. I am having a problem with the sleeves that they keep turning out to long. I have knitted the sleeve once and then pulled it all back and decided to do the increase row every 10th row as opposed to every 12 row. It still hasn't made much difference and I really can't face starting the sleeve again for a 3rd time. Would the method you have shown work for me in shortening the sleeve 2". Also if I decided to start again how would I alter the pattern for keeping the right number of stitches without it getting too long? Kind regards :)

Thanks for the video! Your Kaffe Fassett cardigan is really beautiful. Do you know where I can find the pattern for it?

That’s brilliant!

This is a great tutorial and your method is feels much 'safer' than the other video I watched. She just cut the yarn and unwove it for a while then picked up the stitches. Eek! I have a lace cowl that unintentionally became a double infinity cowl 😊 and I've been very unhappy with it since the twist wrecks the look of the lace. So I think I can make this work! I do have a question: What is that gorgeous cardigan you are wearing? Where can I get the pattern for that? Perhaps you've already answered this question some time in the past but I couldn't find it.

youre a life saver!!!

Very helpful!

Thank you for this video.

Greetings Cheryl! Thank you for the lovely and quite informative sweater resuce! I am knitting a beanie hat for my Dad and it is too large in width. Any suggestions on how to make the hat smaller?

So I’m a knitter but I’m actually not using this for the first time with my own work. I made the mistake of having somebody help me with laundry & OFC one of my ALL time favorite sweaters I’ve had for almost 10 yrs got a bleach spot because they didn’t wait for the water to fill up first. 😭 I thought to myself I know there HAS to be a way I can save this. Thankfully it’s only on the bottom ridge & it’s fairly long. 🤞🏼I have faith in your technique I’m trying this soon.

You are a life saver!!! Thank you so much

So beyond helpful. You saved a frogging!!!

Are you wearing the sweater shown in the bond knitting machine videos, I recently got a bond elite and have watched every single one of your videos, you make is so easy and fun to learn how to use. :)

Hi! How can you modify a round neck sweater into a v line one?Thanks.

I love this video so informative

Can you please show me how to finish off knitting the two pieces together

Thank you for this - do you know if it is possible to do something like this vertically? I knit my first pair of socks and one is much wider from above the ankle to nearly the toe. and its about an inch or a little more too wide so there is ample space to do something like seam it? Anyway I can't find anything on something this way and sure would like to know

Is there a way you could do this vertically instead of horizontally? I’m making a cardigan and made too many increases on the shoulder and now it looks all wonky (it’s got a unique construction).

Hi Cheryl. I was thrilled to find this video. My issue is that I have knitted a stockinette contrast to my folded hem for a cardigan, and the contrast portion is 2 rows too long. Can I use this method to take out and re-bind my hem? Many thanks. Have a blessed day. Vicky

I'm hoping this will work for a sweater I made years ago. I don't even have the pattern anymore as I think it was from a magazine, but as I recall the yoke and sleeves were worked as a horizontal piece with some cables etc. and then the body of the sweater was moss stitch. I don't know why, but the body has stretched out (like the yarn got tired or something) -- perhaps it's a trait of moss stitch on a fairly fine yarn. Anyway, I think I'd like to re-do the body part and what your show in this video is likely what I need to do. Now I need to summon up some bravery :)

Hi Cherly, I just done a baby romper. If I would like to just rescure my first row of knitting which is too tight. Can I do the same method which I cut of 2row and re-knit upside down and bind of instead of joining back them? Thanks :>

Thanks! Knit a flat sock and the heel was the wrong way! But now it's no problem :) (until I knit the next sock that is...)

So glad I watched til the very end 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks for this video, Cheryl! I am knitting a pair of socks, self-patterning, where ball number 2 does not match up properly to ball number 1. Exasperated, I just went ahead and started the second sock at the wrong spot. Once I knit 3 or 4 inches of the cuff, I could see from sock 1 where I would have found the proper beginning. Now I've continued to the heel and will finish this sock but I will need to start the second sock again, and then graft the new part to the part I've done. Should I cut at the cast on row, or probably a couple of rows down? And then graft the live stitches to the stitches I'll put on a circular needle? Any suggestions would be helpful! Thanks

Thank you for this!! So helpful! Could you please link to how to fix vertically? Thanks again!

Hello! Love this video. I have just knit a Shawl/wrap with sleeves in seed stitch for my daughter and it is way too long. I also discovered that the increases from the first sleeve don’t match the decreases going to the second sleeve. My question is, can I shorten this wrap from the beginning of the “first sleeve to seed stitch” and correct the increases before regrafting?

Hello, do you have a video on this for ribbing? I need to reduce the length of my rib and don't know how I'd pick up the stitches for purl and knit

Your hilarious!! Laughter makes knitting (and everything) all the more fun. You saved my butt with this video so many times that it is saved in my favorites. I have a question though. I’m doing a Broken Rib stitch that I need to cut apart and put back together again. In other words, do a Humpy Dumpty. Is it possible to knit two separates together of that pattern? Thank you 😊

Thank you!

I did the original from a kit, but the design is in an out of print book and you should be able to find a copy: Designer Knitting / Hugh Ehrman Westminster Trading Corp, 1986-09. Hardcover. You probably won't be able to find the Rowan yarns anymore, but you can substitute.

Hou do I shorten sleeves? thank-you!

Question from intermediate knitter… is your top on the sample the cast on edge?? I am working on a cuff down Christmas stocking knitted flat so I’m getting confused which way is up 😂

This was helpful, thank you!

Hi. You sound very professional in your knitting. Do you know what cord outside/inside is referring to in an action? It's relating to finishing off a cuff that has an V opening at the bottom.

Have knitted a norwegian cardigan but it is a little tight so wondering if you can cut a vertical cut and to be able to have a sweater instead with buttons??

Thank you so much

Very helpful video thank you! X

Would this work for a top down sweater if the ribbing at the collar is WAY too loose. I made a huge mistake and didnt catch it until I was done with the yoke. I should have dropped needle sizes to what the pattern called for (pattern called for a 6) but I not only DIDNTA drop it smaller than a 6, somehow I knitted the ribbing with a size 8! I need to drop it to at least a 6. Just the ribbing. Would this work the same way?

Thanks so much ~

Thank you for stepping in here icufodu2 and helping someone in the community. There you have it Rhea! A gift from a fellow knitter.

Thank you very much

I have a sweater that I need to lenghten but its already sewn up should I undo the sides and then cut to extend?

if you don't have small circular knitting needles, use pieces of strimmer wire with the ends melted with a flame to blunt them.

Thanks so much for this. Also, the sweater you're wearing is astounding. Please tell me you made it.