This is a great idea-- using spare needles to keep count. I've been using a note pad. I have to say that most of my mistakes have been rip out ones, as I'm not really sure how to fix the little things without making them worse. As I rip out, I remind myself that it won't take too long to knit back and beyond my mistake, and I'll feel better about it when I'm finished my project.

It depends on the boo-boo! If it's too much work, I'll save time starting all over again..

I usually have to rip out a row or two with every project - it's tough trying to keep track of so many things going on while created on the machine! Row counter, pattern instructions, yarn traveling on the mast, electronics of the machine, and so on and so on and so on. Sometimes its harder than driving a car! BUT! It's all a learning curve and well worth it.

I’m knitting my first project a cardigan so far I’ve had a rotten cast on edge, dropped stitches and struggled to re knit them but got there in the end, muddled which edge I should have been decreasing on, but apart from all that I’ve got a back and one front completed and the second front is at the decrease. I’m enjoying every moment of it and looking forward to the completed piece being done. I’ve learnt a hell of a lot.

It depends where they are... If they're at the back or near the sides I mainly ignore them... But if they are at the front I rip the rows!!!