When you think you’ve dropped a stitch, the first
thing to do is find and secure the dropped stitch.
When you drop a stitch, it’ll cause your knitting to
unravel, so find and secure it immediately.
To find a dropped stitch, carefully spread out your
stitches along the needle and slowly scan the row(s)
below. The telltale sign of a dropped stitch is a
horizontal strand of yarn that isn’t pulled through a
loop. You can identify a dropped stitch a couple
ways.
If the dropped stitch hasn’t unraveled far or if
you just recently dropped it, you should see a
horizontal yarn that didn’t get pulled through.
If the dropped stitch has worked itself down
several rows, or if you didn’t notice its
absence immediately, it should appear as a
wayward stitch at the bottom of a ladder of
unworked strands. Each strand represents a
row.
When you find the dropped stitch, you need to
secure it so that it doesn’t unravel any more. To do
so, carefully work a small needle tip, the blunt point
of a tapestry needle, a toothpick, a nail, a bobby pin,
or anything into it to secure it and stretch it out a
bit. Then, use a safety pin to secure the stitch.
