Patent ID: 8561433

Claim:
A method for repairing dropped stitches in a knitted article, the method comprising: recovering a first dropped stitch by hooking a bottommost horizontal bar of a first dropped stitch and pulling the bottommost horizontal bar through an intact loop of the knitted article; and recovering a second dropped stitch by hooking a next bottommost horizontal bar of the second dropped stitch and pulling the next bottommost horizontal bar through the first recovered stitch, wherein recovering the second dropped stitch is performed without releasing the first recovered stitch, wherein the knitted article is a garter stitch knitted article comprising at least one dropped knit stitch and at least one dropped purl stitch and wherein recovering the first dropped stitch and recovering the second dropped stitch further comprises: rotating the knitted article 180° such that the bottommost horizontal bar is a bottommost knit bar and the next bottommost horizontal bar is a bottommost purl bar if the bottommost horizontal bar is a bottommost purl bar; inserting a first hook of an elongated shaft into the intact loop from a front side of the knitted article; positioning the first hook below the bottommost knit bar and hooking the bottommost knit bar with the first hook from below; pulling the bottommost knit bar through the intact loop from a front side of the knitted article with the first hook, thereby recovering the dropped knit stitch; sliding the elongated shaft parallel to the knitted article and behind the bottommost purl bar to position the recovered knit stitch proximate to a second hook of the elongated shaft; hooking the recovered knit stitch with the second hook of the elongated shaft; pulling the recovered knit stitch behind the bottommost purl bar to position the recovered knit stitch and the second hook of the elongated shaft above the bottommost purl bar; rotating the elongated shaft to position the second hook to face downward and hooking the bottommost purl bar with the second hook from above; and pulling the bottommost purl bar through the recovered knit stitch from the front side of the knitted article with the second hook, thereby recovering the dropped purl stitch.