Disappearing Stitch- Help

[jnet24]

Okay so I am knitting a cozy baby cocoon and using two strands. Simple pattern just stocknette all the way around. Anyhow, I lost a stitch but there is no ladder where I dropped it. No hole or anything. It is like I had 10 stitches on my needle and then I had nine. What could I have done? I am positive I didn't knit 4 strands together like a knit2tog stitch. I am a a total newbie, but I know what it normally looks like when you drop a stitch, I have done it enough Is there any way it could look like it wasnt dropped though it was? Wouldn't it ladder all the way to the bottom... I am a good 6 inches up, using DPN size 13 needles.. ( not sure if that helps) Any help would be great! Thanks

[westcoastlady]

Is your yarn really slippery or a bit fuzzy. With fuzzy yarn you can drop and stitch and it won't ladder because the fuzz kinda holds it in place. It it's only ten stitches then I would go back to the beginning and count the number of stiches in a row.. then go up and inch and count that row... until you find the section where you drop to 9 stitches. If it's more than say 20 stiches that could be a crazy making exercise so I would examine you knitting really carefully for something that just looks different. A dropped stitch that hasn't laddered will just look like a loop that doesn't belong. Once you find it... put a safety pin through the loop so that it doesn't ladder. You can try to weave it up but that can be really hard if you've been knitting for a while without that stitch, you may have to rip back your knitting to that point and then knit up with all of your stitches. Good Luck!

[Katie T]

If it were me and you can't notice it in the work I would just leave it alone. If it were a project for me of course.