Help, giant loop in my project

I can’t figure out what I did wrong or how to fix it. I tinked back quite a few rows and stitches and I wasn’t able to fix or remove the loop. What should I do? I dropped 10 stitches down 6 or 7 rows and that didn’t change the loop. Thanks for any help you can offer!

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I don’t think laddering down can fix this one. I can’t quite tell from the picture, but I think you might have put your knitting down and then picked it up and started knitting in the wrong direction, leaving a loop at the same time. (An accidental short row.)

Other folks will be along to give their suggestions. I think you might need to unravel back to the loop to fix this, but they might have different advice.

You could just pull the loop through to the back and weave it in, but if there is an accidental short row, that won’t fix that.

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Welcome to KnittingHelp!
It does look like an accidental turn creating a short row as kushami posted. It’s long enough that you can push it to the back of the knitted piece, cut it in half and weave in the ends.
What are you making?

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I’m not against weaving in and using duplicate stitch to fix mistakes or neaten up bit of fabric but I think in this particular case my preference would be to undo to the row below and reknit.
It’s a good opportunity to learn how to put in and use life lines if you haven’t used them before

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What I would do would depend on how many stitches you have in total on your needle! If there aren’t many, I’d pull it back to the row before and reknit.
If however it’s a long row, and a lot of reknitting, I’d drop down stitch by stitch and add the two missing rows, keeping fingers crossed that your loop has enough yarn for 8 extra stitches!

Note the way your loop is lying, the bottom portion would be for extra row 1 and the top part of the loop , for extra row two.
I’d start with stitch 4 ie the one nearest the origin of the loop, and drop down only that stitch. Add two extra stitches by latching up the bottom loop and then the top loop, and then the remaining stitches. Then do the same for stitch 3, and then stitch 2.
If there is still excess loop, you can also do stitch 1, but the edge stitch is trickier if you’re not used to it, as you’ll get one loop for two rows of edge stitches. Good luck!