How To Fix Your Crochet Project From The Foundation/ Cast On Edge Without Unravelling Your Project! 

You just don’t know how many tears I cried before finding your video! 😭Thank you so much

This video has saved me from mortification at having to give a new mother a baby blanket with a wider bottom than top. I started with an H hook and made a whole panel of 30 rows with 6 colors; then, without noticing, I picked up a G hook and crocheted 2 more full panels. It made a huge difference. I agonized for 2 days about what to do. Then I checked on RU-vid for a fix. I found this wonderful video! Thank you so much!!!!

Hi Kate I've been crocheting for 34 yrs. And ive just learnt something new... Happy hooking..

Brilliant!!!! I am a relative newbie to crochet and I frog frequently the entire project when I spot a boo boo that I had missed seeing earlier. Thank you from the depths of my yarny heart!

Thank you so much for this video. I had made a top that was too long and looked frumpy. Now it’s a really flattering crop. 🎉😊

Kate, you just saved my Christmas project! I can't thank you enough, and I have limited time until Christmas so I couldn't start the project over again. I love you for this!

OMG, even with my super vague googling, your video was the first response that came up, and it was the exact issue I was having (I'm basically finished my entire cardigan, sleeves and all, and now I've decided the length is way too long). Thank you so much for this, it's perfect!

So glad I found this video! I made a top with bamboo rayon yarn and after washing the shirt, it’s now way too long! Now I have the option to shorten it and not have a ruined project. Thank you!!

This is exactly what I was looking for. Made a baby blanket for donation and it is beautiful....except for the first chain. Thought it was doomed but in looking for a fix found your video. My immense thank you for taking the time to post this one.

WOW - a random entry of "frogging in reverse" with not a hope in h**l of getting results but here we are! You've just saved my life or at least my sanity. My project was also a sweater but it started at the bottom edge of the back, worked to the shoulder area, split and worked down the fronts - ending at the bottom front edges. Needless to say, it is the starting edge at the bottom of the back where I need to remove about 10 rows. Wish me luck

This tutorial is great! I’ve only been crocheting a few months and was working on a blanket that ended up shorter than where I started. I used your tutorial to go back and cut off the beginning 20 rows and it worked perfectly! Thank you so much! I will say I was very nervous making the cut lol

I just tried doing this without knowing that it was ok to do it (I'm new to crochet). I'm glad to see there is an established method. I was thinking about using my sewing machine to secure the stitches

I usually do the securing with a yarn needle first, which enters much more easily and quickly. After the cutting is done, I can comfortably use my usual hook to do the slip stitches, and not a smaller one, otherwise the new first row will be shorter and crunch (just as it sometimes happens with your first row when you do your beginning chains too tightly). Or if you want to use a smaller size crochet, at least you should be careful of working veeery loosely. This technique can also be used for repairing torn pieces or pieces which have come apart.

Game changer! So awesome! This reduces risk so many ways!

This was perfect! Thank you! Great explanation 👌 👍

Thank you so much for this video, I’m making a watermelon bag and realized the opening was a bit smaller than I’d like, tried frogging but had forgotten how finicky it is at the wrong end and the stitches became loose, etc. Just incorporated your technique and it looks so much better :)

This video saved my project that I was making for my Daughter's Christmas present. I used your technique and very carefully cut the first 20+ rows which were uneven and also made the piece too long. Thank you!!!!!!

Thank you so much for this genius video , saved me so much work. ❤

This was great tutorial, I made a cardigan which when washed, the sleeves stretched out too long. Just used this method to take off some length. So easy, I did use a darning needle to help pick up the stitches and slip them on to the hook. Thank you

You saved my life, and the life of my project😅 lol thank you! ❤

Kate you absolutely taught and gave me a tool that's a game changer. I made a receiving baby blanket for my new grand daughter. I started crocheting the first 3 inches using a granite aka moss stitch with not enough tension. The result was a very wavy and loose bottom. Now I can remove the loose section completely and save the finished product!! Thank you so much and God bless you. 🙏🎅🎄

Thank you so much for making this video ❤ you saved my project

Thank you so much, Katieree, for this wonderful video - I will now be able to fix the length on two crochet tops I just completed. I thought all hope was lost.

Excellent demo……thanks so much!

Thanks so much. You’re a lifesaver!!

This is just what I needed to learn right now. Thank you!

This saved me from having to redo the very long handle of my tote bag. Thank you so much!!

It's a life saver! Lol I was determined not to redo so much work. Thank so much

I didn't have to cut my work, but this video helped make me brave enough to separate it at a stripe, remove one row of stitches, and then figure out how to crochet (kind of) the pieces back together. Thanks!

Absolutely brilliant! Saved me much time & frustration 😊

Oh wow my first time seeing this and it's a good idea.

Thank you! I just tried my practice piece and this is much simpler than I imagined. Great tutorial.

Thank you so much for this video, i took a long time trying to insert the hook inside the turning chain and i did it a few rows more than the few rows which I have to take just in case i do it wrong- but it worked in the first time and im amazed- tysm for this video

Thank you ... this is perfect!! 🎉

I did it. I was sooooo scared Yay! Thanks for your instructions. It was perfect

Thank you very much! Designing my very first oversized sweater, but somehow I ended up with 36” of positive ease. 😂 Luckily, I’m working side to side, s this video will help me fix the problem. ❤

Wonderful. Thank you!!!

I have been working on a jumper for weeks. It’s a free pattern called The home girl sweater. I’m working on an X-Large this jumper is very over sized.” Funny thing is large is the same nearly, same count as XL Much to large. Luckily it works up and down not left to right. I have already altered the neck line because the v neck dipped to low. Now the shoulder is enormous, so without removing everything and staring over I can now adjust the shoulders.! I removed every stitch two times and if I didn’t find this video I would have been doing it again. Thank you so very much for sharing this! Blessings 🙏

Thank you so much! I was able to fix my project that was using a moss stitch (Needs chain 1 in between the slip stitches).

This is exactly the video I needed

This helps so much thank you! I do have a quick question for you. I am super new to crocheting and did a single stitch for a scarf. Along the way it got shorter and the it got consistent in width. I need to frog it where it gets consistent at but am not 100% sure hope to frog a single stitch and google is only showing me results on how to crochet a plush frog.

Hi Kate, was working on an important project for someone, totally screwed it up, and I would really like to thank you for putting this up on RU-vid, project is now back to normal, thank you Lord!

Amazing sanity saving tutorial! Thank you!

You saved my sweater. THANK YOU!!

Thank you .I copied this technique to shorten a Peter Rabbit jacket. It was marvelous saved me hour of work👏

Thank you for this video, it helped me a lot, I was making a bikini top and it too long and I didn’t want to unravel it so thank you soo much !

Thank you so much! I had cut my project before watching this and thought it was ruined. But after this video I just worked the slip stitch in the next row and it worked perfectly!!! Great tutorial!

This is brilliant! Thank you so much!

Fantastic thank you!!!!

Thank you for this video,this work for me I didn't know what to do and this work for me

I wish i knew how to put up a photo. I will say that being brand new to crochet and being an odd combination of scardey-cat and fearless, and because i had the space to try it first lower than my final intention and in a contrasting color twice so i could really learn all that this technique had for me -- as also not being one to follow directions well, im sure i will need it again! It is a lot of wrestling and a big mess, but both times it worked! Thank you SOOO much for this!!! Tomorrow I'll do it for real in a closer color. It will be tucked inside of the seam of the pillow, so i have some leeway. Awesome trick to know!!!💜💜💜

you're a lifesaver! thank you!!

Thank you for your teaching! I'm a newbie to crocheting; learning from all the wonderful videos on RU-vid; I had been working on the basic double crochet stich and was thinking to make a small lap blanket the first 1-2' of the square was going ok for me :} then I didn't realize that I was going into a round from the square I had just made...pretty funny...anyway I must of lost focus on the edges to continue to make them square...the large funny shaped blanket will not sit flat; so finding your video a God send!! I will try this on what I have there is about 4' that I need to remove from the original 2' square that I started with :{ any other suggesting you have for me as undertake this task ... would be greatly appreciated; have a blessed day.

Thank you so much!🙏🙏🌺🌺

Thank you!

I dont have any idea that this is possible as i have to repair a top that I just made. Thanks so much!!! ❤️❤️

This is a game changer. I’m also making a cardigan (which I’m testing for a designer) and after I completed the pieces she discovered a change needed to be made to the top rows. I’d done a bunch of color work and did not want to redo the entire front panels. You don’t give instructions on how to add more rows back, but I’m hoping I can just start crocheting in the slip stitches. Thank you.

tysm for this ily

hi, thank you so much for this! i have a question, if i want to fix my beginning rows instead of just reducing the length, can i continue crocheting the bottom after i cut the wrong part?

Life saver.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Does anyone know if this would for the sides/width of the project?

Thanks

I know its probably not possible to do this but i was wondering if maybe there is a way to secure the project if removing access vertically and not horizontally on the stitch. Don't know if that makes sense but answers would be appreciated

Is there a way to fix a blanket from the sides and not taking off from the bottom? I am needing help for my first blanket and do not want to start over. A lot was done in the car. learning as Im going

I enjoyed this video on frogging a crochet mistake. I am doing a c2c crochet project and I made a mistake on 2 color change stitches, how can I frog that mistake without ongoing the rows?

I have cut off the bottom section of an afghan and had to redo that section. Now I need to graft it onto the top section that is secured with a lifeline. Do you have a video on how to do this? It's single crochet.

would i be able to do this if I was crocheting in the round?

Can I add on to the beginning after doing this step you showed?

Can you divide a long crocheted blanket horizontally? I made mine very long and rectangular. I would like to divide it into two but I am not sure what to do.

What if I want to lengthen my project?

My yarn is a baby weight so its very thin to use a slip stitch, do u have any suggestions for me? Thanks C

thank you so much

Great technique, but once you finish the slip stitches to secure you may not have to use a scissors. You can locate your tail that you will sew in then simply unravel the stitches of your 2 rows. Since you are working from the top you can just pull them out and salvage all of the yarn so you are not wasting all of those bits.

Can you also apply this for Granny stitch too

If i sewed one part of a project to another part of a project, would i be able to cut the extra without it unravelling? or would i still have to follow this method?

Thank you

I accidentally attached both sleeves of a cardigan upside down so when I went to unravel them to add tapering before attaching cuffs I had a miniature heart attack after I realized I cut through the base chain 😭 you're a lifesaver!! thank you!!!

Wow!!

Thank you, t h a n k y o u, THANK YOU!!! Gamechanger indeed!! Wow!!

Thank you for posting! Question, I made a hat for a friend and actually added too many chains in the original line. I chained 34 and should have chained 26-28. Is this technique still possible if I'm cutting from the sides instead of the bottom?

How will I use this technique on a corner to corner blanket. I didn't have enough to make the corners the same color and decided to change the beginning corners color. But now it's a disaster!

Very informative! Can I do the same thing somehow to take off width instead of length? My project turned out wider than I wanted it to be and I don't want to go through frogging a whole sweater vest :(

Brilliant idea! I may need to use it very soon. I’m making a blanket and one of the colours was a slightly different dye lot. Didn’t notice until I’d finished and by then it’s too late! I think I should be able to do this though, cut out the section, tie the lower half off and then stitch the two together with some sort of hidden stitching so it just looks like a continuation. *hopefully* Thanks for the inspiration! :D

How will I use this technique for a short I messed up

This is much like the knitting process of "steeking." Funny enough, you use crochet to "steek" in knitting, but it's tremendously difficult to find instructions on how to steek crochet (because "crochet" is in the search term for steeking knitting, and knitting has about 5x the number of information crochet does due to its longer history). I Loathe that flipping slip knot on the foundation row and was searching for a way to blast that guy out of my projects. Think I found it! :) There is another method where you use a needle and length of yarn to hold the stitches, then you can slip stitch, sc, dc, whatever it is you need to do, on that length of yarn. I think I'm going to use one or the other method on every project possible from now on so I don't have to look at / deal with that slip knot nub that sticks out and is Never as tight as the rest of my stitches. Oddly, my foundation chain often ends up Floppier than the rest of my project, rather than tighter. I've been known to undo the slip knot and retie it, but firming up the entire foundation is enticing, even if it is a lot of work. I mean, why take all this time to make a beautiful creation only to have that One part exist as a blight? 😆 Guess I'll be making some more dishcloths to practice . . .. Anyone need any dishcloths? 🤦‍♀

Hello dear. Do you know a way I could do this, but in vertical? I mean I measured my underbust and started crocheting my underbust piece, but now that I have to sew the ends together I tried it on and found out it’s way too large and there’s a huge excess chunk that I don’t know how to get rid of 😭

About to try on a blanket that is wider at the bottom and as it is colored stripes and different stitch patterns, I hope it will work as I am about a metre into the project….

I used Jumbo yarn for a hand crochet blanket (annoying project, never again). It's so thick, I'm having trouble doing this. >.

Hi Kate, I've just watched your video. I want to shorten a piece with a "double crochet." I have a practice piece also however I can see the same two loops on each stitch like yours. As I think yours is in treble. I'm a beginner crocheter. Made too skinny at beginning and want to cut the work. So can you tell me where the stitches are for the double crochet please. Thanks

I need to do from front side panels

Hi! I'm thinking of using this technique to fix the middle of a scarf that I messed up my pattern on, rather than fixing a foundation chain. Do you think I could use this technique to separate out where I messed up, go in and correct, make that new chain, and reattach the other part of the project with something simple like a slip stitch? No idea if that makes sense.

What would you do if you have worked in the round with a ribbed cuff? I crocheted a cuff and joined it with slip stitches, then crocheted around , but I didn’t realise I added some stitches and it gradually got bigger. Then later on I fixed it but now for the second sleeve I have to get that amount of stitches and increase but it’s just not adding up. I want to fix the bottom of the previous sleeve but not sure how.

Do you have suggestions for cutting off length where it is single crochet, not double crochet. I can't figure out where to put the yarn to protect the rows above where I need to cut.

How do you shorten a vertical muti colored scarf horizontally? I made it too long 🫤

Hi Kate ur tutorial is great for saving time . I crocheted a dress which isn’t finished yet ,I jus have to crochet the layers in,I’ve got the top part and the netting done .I had a pink colour round the neck line of it and decided I didn’t want that colour anymore so without thinking I jus took it out . And only wen I took it out I realised that I had jus removed my foundation chain . So now I’ve got all these loops and don’t know how to add the new colour in. I really don’t want to frog the whole dress as it has taken near 2 full days to get this far . Could you be able to tell me how to add the new colour yarn in through all the loops plz. I’m not great with understanding written patterns , if u have a tutorial that would be great ! Thanks in advance

Hi dear, I would like to ask if the remaining part that was cut off can still be reused?

Could you please make a tutorial on how to cut double crochet vertically, please? I made a mistake making my cat beanie, and i don't know how to cut it... thanks!! ❤❤❤❤❤

Would you be able to add onto it after this?

heyyy so i was curious if i could do this vertically and perpendicular to the foundation? i’m making a hat and realized i was making it way too big 😭🙌