I think what you did here was knit partway across the piece, put it down, and when you picked it back up you turned it with the wrong side facing you and knit back across only the part you had already knitted, instead of the remaining stitches on the row. Does that make sense? Basically, you inserted an inadvertent short row.
There's no way to fix it, except to frog it back to that spot and see if that's indeed what you did. Just keep repeating, frogging is learning, frogging is learning...
Jesus, girl. Am I going to have to come up to Kentucky? ;)
Though, if you really did want to just chalk it up to experience but keep going, but bring it back down to 76 stitches... just knit two stitches together (take two loops on the needle when you make the stitch instead of one) and go from there?
Agreed. You accidentally made a short row about 5 ridges (10 rows) down. I'd just ignore it. If it's a blanket, it won't be noticeable. Heck, you pointed it out, and it took me a good five minutes to notice it. To get rid of the 77th stitch, just knit through 2 stitches together somewhere in the middle of the row.
I fixed the increase, right before realizing it was a switchback that had caused it.
My concern about not fixing it is that it will throw off the rest of the blanket, as it's a colorblock. It might work to ignore it, but Susan and lemon are right - it'll haunt me if I don't fix it.
Also, having done this a number of times when I was new at it, just remember that when you start knitting, the yarn you're working with should always be on your right needle.
Having seen you in action, I would say you won't be happy with it if you don't frog it and re-do it. I think Lemon's right that you turned around and knitted back in the wrong direction.
Your knitting is beautiful, though. You've picked it up really quickly.
Thanks. Once I got the rhythm of it, it was great. I just need to learn not to put my work down in mid-row. Not until I'm confident that I won't do something stupid like backtrack.
Oh, hell, I still do it from time to time. The way you can tell very quickly that you've done it if you put it down and start again is that there will be a BIG hole where you picked up, big enough to stick your little finger through.
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There's no way to fix it, except to frog it back to that spot and see if that's indeed what you did. Just keep repeating, frogging is learning, frogging is learning...
Jesus, girl. Am I going to have to come up to Kentucky? ;)
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Though, if you really did want to just chalk it up to experience but keep going, but bring it back down to 76 stitches... just knit two stitches together (take two loops on the needle when you make the stitch instead of one) and go from there?
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My concern about not fixing it is that it will throw off the rest of the blanket, as it's a colorblock. It might work to ignore it, but Susan and lemon are right - it'll haunt me if I don't fix it.
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Also, having done this a number of times when I was new at it, just remember that when you start knitting, the yarn you're working with should always be on your right needle.
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I need to post this on my wall, under your comment about being strong.
You're very good at this.
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Your knitting is beautiful, though. You've picked it up really quickly.
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