Hello
Good to hear the knit cast on worked out well for you.
Do you know how many stitches you started with and if you have the same number now?
I can’t say for sure what has happened, I suspect your working yarn was in the wrong place when you picked up the stitches and became wrapped around the bottom of your fabric so that when you then worked the next stitch it pulled up the cast on edge.
When stitches drop off we all tend to have a sudden panic and grab them as quickly as possible before they unravel. That’s fine, save them while you can onto whichever needle or stitch holder you can manage to grab them with. But, then stop and have a good look, make sure they are all in the right order and the working yarn is in the right place. If the working yarn has become trapped this could cause a problem which can be fixed by transferring stitches from one needle to the other or onto holders temporarily whilst you sort out where the yarn is, where you are up to, counting the stitches and so on, before you then go ahead with the knitting.
Or as rcubed said maybe the fabric became twisted, transfering the stitches to the other needle whilst you untwist the fabric and ensure everything is flat and where it should be before continuing would be the way to avoid this sort of problem happening again.
Each knitting stitch has a right leg and a left leg, if they go onto the needle the wrong way around you will get a twisted stitch but as a new knitter I probably wouldn’t worry about that at this point. Something to learn later on.
Some options now
- Leave it, hand made things have love and kindness sewn into them, they might not be perfect but they have much more than perfection. People can treasure those little mistakes which evidence how much effort has been put in.
- Rip it all out and start again.
- Continue for now leaving the mistake see how you feel about this part at the end. You might add tassles to cover up, or you might love it, or if you end up really hating this beginning end of it you can learn how to put in a life line, cut off this end part and replace it with a new bind off row to secure the stitches. We can give a link to a video for this and you can practise on a swatch (small sample) before tackling the scarf.
- Tink back these few stitches you have worked until you get past the place where the error is. If it is just yarn twisted around the fabric you will be able to reposition it and then reknit the stitches and continue.
There is a chance that tinking back does not solve the problem and then you choose another option.
Tinking is a GREAT skill to learn as a new knitter. It is undoing one stitch at a time in a very controlled way so that none are lost. All knitters have to undo stitches at some time or other so knowing how and becoming more confident in this is not time wasted.
Here’s a video on tinking in case you’d like to have a go
Good luck
