This also
happened to me pretty often when I first started knitting.
I figured out
that a lot of times I ended up with too many stitches because I
put an extra loop of yarn over the needle. Then, when I went
back and did the next row, I worked that loop by mistake. This
makes an extra stitch on the needle and a hole where the
original mistake happened. The easiest way to fix it is to knit
two stitches together on the next row to get back to the right
number of stitches. You can see how to do it here:
Decreasing
Stitches. If you are left with a hole, later you can either sew
the hole together or you can put some kind of decoration over
the hole.
If you don’t
want to do that, then you have to rip back to the place where
the mistake happened. To see how to do that, look at the video
on Frogging.
TIP: It’s a good
idea to count your stitches every couple of rows when you first
start knitting. That way you can find your mistake before you
get too far.
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