Mistakes 101: Loop Did Not Get Pulled through the Previous Stitch

Hi guys, Mary Beth Temple here from "The Knitting Circle". One of the common mistakes that new knitters make is not finishing the stitch. And it looks like the loop is not pulled all the way through. So, I'm gonna take a minute and show you how to fix that in case it happens to you. So, you're knitting along and you're knitting along and you're knitting along and you're knitting along. And then, you come here and you think, "Boy, that doesn't look right. That looks like there's an extra yarn over there but I didn't do any yarn overs." Yarn overs happen accidentally when you're moving the yarn from the front to the back or the back to the front because you're doing ribbing or another stitch that requires the yarn to travel back and forth. You have this extra loop here, 99 times out of a 100, the thing that happened is that you did not complete the stitch. Now, if I look super closely and I look at the working yarn in the row below. Here's my yarn going up and then it goes down, and then it goes up and then it goes down, and then, heck, it's on the other needle. So, what this means is I did not complete- Well, that was a purl stitch 'cause I'm working in stockinette. But it doesn't matter which stitch it is. This loop should have gone through this loop and it did not. So, all you want to do is grab the stitch that was not worked through and pull it over that loop that's hanging out. Then, you can pull your right hand needle tip out. Now if I hold this up, you can see that my stitches are all lined up evenly across and I can just keep knitting. Let's take a look at that one more time. I'm netting along and I come to this sort of loose, floppy stitch there and it's not a complete stitch. You can see, it's going from this stitch to this stitch and it didn't interact with this stitch at all. So, I'm gonna keep it up on my left hand needle if I'm right-handed and vice versa, if I'm left-handed and I'm going to grab the stitch that I ignored and I'm going to pull it over that big floppy loop and let it go. And then, once again, you can see my stitches are all lined up again. So, how did that happen? Nine times out of 10, you're knitting along and you're knitting along and you're knitting along and you don't complete the stitch. The last thing that you do with a stitch is pull it through the stitch on the left hand needle and pop it off, right? But, sometimes you're knitting really fast and you go like this and you don't finish it. Then, both of those loops wind up on the right hand needle. And then you go on and you knit the next stitch 'cause you didn't notice that you did it. You're cruising right along, and then, you don't see that it happened until the next row. Let's take a look and see what we would do if it happened on the purl side. Now I'm purling along and I'm purling along and I'm purling along. And once again, I see this loop hanging out here and I see the stitch on this side of this stitch has been dealt with. And the stitch on this side of this stitch has been dealt with, but this guy, nothing. Once again, all I'm going to do, I'm going to pull the stitch that was on the left hand needle. I'm going to pull it over that loop and then I'm gonna have to work it because the first thing that I did was complete the stitch that had been incomplete. Let's turn around and look at it on the right side. And you can see it blends right in with all the other stitches. See, I told you that wasn't so hard. It's okay to make mistakes in your knitting. It's also okay to learn how to fix them. There's all kinds of things you can check out here on "The Knitting Circle". So, I look forward to seeing you around the internet.