Help figuring out where I messed up and how to fix it?

I am knitting a brioche scarf and on the edge stitch I messed up somewhere. I just finished the repeat of row two and I’m supposed to be starting row 3 but I messed up on knitting the first stitch and while trying to fix it, I made it worse and I’m pretty confused looking at what stitch is supposed to go where. I am new to knitting, this is my first big project.

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Welcome to the forum!
That’s terrific that you are venturing into brioche for you first project. It’s a lovely stitch pattern and perfect for a cozy scarf.
Turn the scarf so that the major part of the knitting is on the right needle. Slip the two sts at the end onto the needle held in the left hand. It looks like you’ve done this in the first photo. Just turn so the 2sts are held in the left hand needle. Yarn over, slip one purlwise, then knit the last stitch. As best as I can tell that should work.
It’s a very good idea especially with brioche to use a lifeline every few rows. That way you can easily rip back without confusion and without losing a stitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiqYUE_aHAw

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Okay, thank you! I got the stitches all on one needle but now I have one issue…

I have the beginning stitches of row 2 but ending stitches of row 3, but I still have the correct number of stitches on the needle? Super confused. :sweat_smile: I’m scared to move forward because I don’t know how it will affect the rest of my pattern.

I wish I knew about using a lifeline a long time ago! I have restarted this scarf many times because I didn’t know how to fix my mistakes. Thank you so much for that! I will definitely be using that from now on.

Hello
I can’t see the error but if I understand you correctly you have discovered you have half a row of the right side worked and half a row of the wong side, meaning either you accidentally switched your stitch pattern when knitting or that when fixing you have managed to save the stitches but they belong to different rows.

A way to get a good look is to slip each stitch (with its pair yo) one at a time across to a different needle. Sometimes this helps to highlight where an error is.
Another option is to tink back a row or two. Do you know how to tink? It is knit backwards, to unknit, a way of unknitting each stitch, slowly, with control, saving every stitch a you go

Here’s a video for how to tink brioche

If you haven’t tried a tink yet I’d suggest knitting up a small square with different yarn and needles and give it a go to get the idea before trying the brioche tink, there are arious videos o this, here’s one

Undoing stitches, tinking, is super useful and worth learning early on, it becomes so normal to undo a stitch here o there that it doesn’t feel like undoing, rather it just feels like part of knitting.

I find if I have stitches from different row, when I tink the working yarn will suddenly jump some stitches, which are from the row below, those stitches can be just slipped , purl wise, one at a time to your other needle.

Hopefully you’ll get everything back onto one row ready to continue working.

Let us know how it goes.

It’s looks to me like you should be ok to start Row 2 with a knit, then the repeat: BRK, yo, sl1p.
Put in a lifeline and give that a try. It will put you back on track with the brioche pattern. Your knitting is very pretty and definitely doesn’t look like a beginner project!