Adding a life line is a great technique when you are working on a complicated lace or colourwork pattern and really useful to give you a little extra confidence when you are trying a new technique for the first time.
A lifeline is a way of protecting the knitting that your have already done and are happy with.
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All you need for a life line is a blunt darning needle and a spool of sewing cotton.
In the picture above you can see a life line running across the work between the stocking stitch section and the lace. If I was to drop a stitch now or need to rip back, the life line would stop stitches in the stocking stitch coming out.
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In this swatch, I know the lace is correct so far so I am going to add another life line to protect that work.&nbsp;
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Thread the darning needle with a long length of sewing cotton and thread it through each stitch on your needle.
If you are working with a lot of stitches, leave the cotton attached to your spool until you have fed it through every stitch to the end.
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Be careful to run your thread through each stitch and not the yarn, and avoid threading it through any stitch markers. Secure the thread at each end with a loose back stitch.
Once the life line is secure you can simple continue with your knitting.
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If you make a mistake in your pattern – here I started with the wrong row – you can simply remove your&nbsp;<a href="https://www.knitpro.eu/" target="_blank">knitting needles</a>&nbsp;and rip back to the life line. In other words a place where you are confident your work is correct.
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The life line will prevent you going any further than that row.
Then you can simply return your work to your needles and continue.

Adding a life line is a great technique when you are working on a complicated lace or colourwork pattern and really useful to give you a little extra confidence when you are trying a new technique for the first time.

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