OH NO! I dropped a stitch!

I was almost done with my latest knitting project until I noticed I had dropped a stitch along the way. So frustrating! I have learned some tips and tricks and if I wasn't working with novelty yarn I could have used a crochet hook to work the dropped stitch back up to my needle (I will have a tip segment on the blog soon telling more of the crochet hook method). So I pulled the knitting needle out, loosing the stitches and went to work unraveling to about 2 rows under where the stitch was dropped (better safe than sorry). And here's what I had...

The stitches off the needle. I unraveled until about 2 rows under where I had the dropped stitch.

Now to put the stitches back on the needle...

Picking the stitches back up.

Don't worry about the stitches being straight when picking them back up because you can easily fix that once you get them all back on and start knitting. I will show you how.

All of the stitches back on the needle, although some of them are turned wrong.

I put my knitting needle over to the side while I wrap the unraveled yarn back onto the ball of yarn. (I'm gonna show you a little trick I use as well to keep my yarn ball clean while knitting)

Now here is my tip...I take a plastic grocery bag like this (you can use many different things for this as I will cover in the tips segment coming soon, but for this I am using a plastic bag).

I place my yarn ball inside the plastic bag...

and tie a knot tight enough the yarn ball will not fall out but leaving the strand of yarn free to flow through like this...

Now back to the needle with the picked up stitches...

See how the stitch is on the needle wrong...

(sorry this picture is not focused)

I take and insert the needle into the stitch as I would to knit...

I slip the stitch off the needle in my left hand onto the needle in my right hand like so...

Now I insert the needle into the front of the stitch like so...

and slip the stitch from the right needle back onto the left needle where it belongs.

Now the stitch is turned right and I'm ready to knit (I repeated as necessary across the row).

A row of correctly turned stitches.

I will now be completing the scarf, hopefully without anymore setbacks. I hope this was helpful for anyone needing it. Like I said above, I will soon be posting a tip segment of all the helpful ideas I have learned along the way and if you have any suggestions you may email me at craftycraftercrafts(at)gmail(dot)com and I will feature it on my blog and you will get full credit. I will be posting my finished work as well as soon as it is completed. Of course, my earlier post from yesterday stating that I would be finished by last night is no longer accurate. Just remember set backs are normal and mistakes can be corrected so if you are new to knitting please do not let it discourage you. As always people...stay crafty!