There is only one way to form a hole in your knitting. This is an easy accident
There is only one way to form a hole in your knitting. This is an easy accident for the new knitter. It is caused by placing the yarn on the wrong side of the needle before forming a new stitch. This puts a wrap of yarn around the needle that looks like a new stitch. Working into that wrap on the next row will increase the stitch count by one.If you discover the extra wrap immediately, you can rip back to the wrap and place the yarn in the proper position before starting to knit. However, most extra wraps are found on the next row or two. It only becomes an actual stitch if you work into it. At this point, just slide that wrap (or the stitch created by the wrap) off the left needle and work the row normally. That extra yarn will be absorbed by the neighboring stitches.
I have found that you can safely drop that unwanted wrap stitch if you have worked three or fewer rows. There will be a small looseness in that area that is generally unremarkable. After three rows though, those dropped stitches start to form a pattern and that pattern becomes noticible. Either rip back at least one row or to the actual wrap to correct the mistake.Creating a hole is the basis of lace when it is done on purpose. This hole is done deliberately in the dish cloth pattern to help the new knitter identify that wrap. Learning what to look for when you do it on purpose, will help you identify it when done accidently. now you know both what causes the hole in your knitting and how to fix it if it is a mistake.
The next lesson goes into more detail on that wrap that we call a yarn over (YO).
