Everything looks good except ONE thing. The working yarn is hanging off of the SECOND loop on the needle instead of the first.
I have the correct number of stitches on there (20). So what did I do wrong, and how do I get the yarn to hang from the first loop???
Thanks SO much! I was so worried about pulling the needle out and ripping back, but I did it! I was so proud. Now I just have to get this one little problem fixed and I’ll be off and stumbling again!
Laura :think:
It’s possible that the one stitch is a row below the others – if the frogging went a bit too far, by one stitch – in which case you can put the first loop on your left needle and knit it, which will give you the right number of stitches with the right rows.
I’m sorry if this is a stupid question. I’m so new to this and it just befuddles me quite often.
I think you’re right that that is what happened. I’m just not sure how to go forward. If I put it onto the left needle and knit it, then what? And how do I put it on the needle? Do I go in thru the front?
What masochist invented knitting?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Slip the stitch that does not have the working yarn hanging from it onto your left needle and then knit it as per your pattern. It will then end up on your right needle when you have finished that stitch. You should then have 20 stitches on your right needle. Turn your work and start another row. It’s that easy. You just dropped one too many stitches when you were frogging. Great work getting them back on the needle! Chin up, it DOES get easier with practice!
No, you wouldn’t lose one. 
Put the one stitch onto one needle, and leave the other 19 where they are – the working yarn should be coming from between the needles. Take the one-stitch needle in your left hand, and the 19-stitch needle in your right, and pretend that you just did 19 of the 20 stitches in the row. Do the last one (knit or purl, depending on your pattern), knit/purl-ing it from the left needle to the right, and you’ll have 20 stitches on the right needle again, but with the working yarn at the end.
(Frogging too far like that – which I do [I]all the time[/I], which is why I tend not to frog unless I have a lifeline or am undoing the whole thing – is just basically undoing a few extra stitches on the row before, so you start where the yarn is and just go on.)
…though now that I think about it, I suppose it could also be frogging not far enough – that is, having one stitch from the row [I]above[/I]. Depends on where the working yarn is actually coming from; if the last stitch it’s doing is the 19th, then you want to do the 20th stitch of the row, but if the last stitch is the end stitch, you either want to frog/tink one more stitch, or just continue with the other 19 stitches of the row