Dropped stitch that isn't dropped

HI, I’m new member, never even been in a forum or chat room type thing! An average knitter.

I have a piece in which I have dropped a stitch. I know how to pick this up, but somehow I seemed to have picked up a stitch in the row above and left the loop. Of course I didn’t find it for stacks of rows. Can I loop it in somehow. There is no “normal” ladder just an abandoned loop.

Do you know how to go back and pick up a stitch if it ladders? If so, then create a ladder by following up that bad-loop stitch up to the live ones on your needle, drop it, let it/force it to ladder down to where it happened, and with a crochet hook, work your way back up. If it’s in an unobtrusive spot, or you don’t care about how it looks, you [U]can[/U] leave it alone. It won’t hurt anything or unravel.

Or to be sure, you can pull it through to the back and tack it down with a piece of yarn.