Knitting Help – Lifelines in Ribbing

Let’s say you’ve knitting ribbing, you’ve made a mistake, and you need to rip back. Here is a way of stringing a lifeline through rib stitch, so that you don’t have to worry about retrieving dropped stitches!

Information on things you’ll see in this video:

The sweater on the mannequin is my Three Rectangles, Two Triangles pattern + video tutorial:

Easy-Knit Sweater Jacket

The shawl I’m wearing in the video is the Clapotis, knit in Noro Silk Garden:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/clapotis

The purple yarn I used for demonstration is Malabrigo Chunky. The bamboo needles I used are made by Clover.