Dropped Garter Stitches on finished Knitted blanket

Hi all!

Several months ago I washed my blanket and while I was laying it flat to dry I noticed that several stitches had dropped and/or come undone during the washing process. I am fairly new to knitting and the blanket is my first handknitted project. I need help fixing the stitches so it can once again be a finished project. Thank you in advance!!

Above is a picture of when I finished the blanket. If needed, I can take pictures of the dropped stitches.

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Welcome to the forum!
It’s beautiful and a grand success. Congratulations on the almost finished blanket.

You can “ladder up” the dropped sts as far as you can then tie them off with a short piece of yarn and weave in the repair yarn’s ends. Here’s a video for one way to ladder up garter sts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da79sRCWgw4

This method doesn’t require flipping the blanket which is not so easy with such a large project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6LL9zESuU
You can work these with knitting needles but a crochet hook makes it much simpler.

Once you’ve worked the stitch up as far as you can without the knit fabric getting too tight, Put a short strand of yarn through the last stitch and secure it to the strand between sts in the row above. You’ll be set to go with a truly lovely first project.

Thank you! How would I secure the yarn to the sts above?

Run a short strand of yarn, say 4-6 inches through the errant stitch. Then just loop one end of the short strand over the strand between sts directly above the errant stitch that you’ve been laddering up. Then you can tie a knot and weave the short repair strand’s ends into the sts on either side.

The rows where the stitch slipped down will have extra yarn above the loose stitch. But eventually you’ll get to a row where you continued knitting across the row and now there’s no extra yarn ladders to use to pull up the loose stitch. That’s where you’ll tie off the loop so it can’t run loose again.

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Great first project!

In addition to what salmonmac has already helped with.
Did you weave in the ends when you started a new ball of yarn? Some new knitters don’t know about weaving in ends and leave a knot instead. A knot can come undone in laundering more easily than ends which are woven in - different yarn fibres can also effect how easily a knot comes undone. If you have a hole in your blanket which is not related to a dropped stitch but instead is related to an area where a new ball was added and came undone, you’ll need an additional method of fixing.
Let us know if you need this. It’s OK to post a pic of the holes or ladders if you need to.
Mending your blanket will give you additional skills which will help in your future projects too.

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Thank you!! I definitely will post pictures later because it may be that I did not tie them in when I needed a new skein. I appreciate all the help :orange_heart:

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