O, the horror!

I thought things were going badly when I found a dropped stitch (!) while sewing up the jumper. It was at the armhole shaping, and I'd dropped the last stitch of the last row before the cast off stitches. After I got over my shock at a dropped stitch (!!) I realised that it would be a simple matter of sewing the stitch into the seam, and all would be well (except that I'd always know that there was a dropped stitch there.

So I continued sewing on the sleeve, without further drama. But on the 2nd sleeve (or it could have been the 1st sleeve, I suppose) I found ANOTHER DROPPED STITCH!!! It was just hanging there, on the sleeve, again at the edge (phew) of the shoulder shaping.

In each case, I can't fathom how I dropped a stitch and didn't notice. My only thoughts are that a) I wasn't paying enough attention, although I can't see how I managed it with the armhole shaping, and b) that knitting with 8ply on 5mm needles increases the chances of things falling off, as it's such a loose tension (for me, anyway).

It was especially difficult when trying to cast off super-loosely at the neck, and the needles just kept falling out altogether.

Apart from that, it's sewing up fine. But I'm always going to remember these dropped stitches.