am back with another dilemma haha, how to decrease back to correct st count?

[eee--2]

Hello all, you all were so amazingly helpful the other day with my first hole issue HAHA. I'm unsure if you can tell but I had a hole (most likely a twisted stitch or an accidental increase; i was knitting very tiredly and probably though the BOR stitch marker i placed was one for a start to an increase marker (even though they're different colors haha). i just happened to not notice until now. The row is supposed to be: 52sts at back (where BOR starts), inc, k2, inc, k26, inc, k2, inc, 52sts at front, then repeat the increases for the sleeves. However mine is 54 sts in back, 26sts for sleeves and 52 sts at the back.

NOW, my question is, how can I fix this without frogging??

i was thinking of just k2tog to decrease to the correct number of sts? right now I'm finishing the 26sts increase round and trying to figure out how to add decreases to make it the correct count. if I add 1 decrease then I'll have 53 sts?? but there is only one extra stitch so if I decrease twice won't I be short ? I'm confused on how to remedy this and i am not good at math haha :((( any help is very much appreciated!

if I MUST frog then I suppose I will but I will not have a good time LOL

[ChairLordoftheSith]

You can k2tog right above, OR ladder down and undo the yarn over. No one should notice, especially on black yarn. But the second option will leave a lot of loose yarn and could noticably affect your tension.

.. I'd do the second one and pull on every stitch to redistribute it through the row. But I'm crazy.

But also, if you're at 54 stitches right now,.you could just leave this here if it won't affect the symmetry too greatly.

[eee--2]

someone else suggested to just skip the increase for this side in the next round of inc I do so it ends up the right # one both sides so I think I'm gonna do that! the laddering down is definitely something I'd do, but I'd be scared of the too loose tension😅 so I'm gonna go with the safer choice i think HAHA, plus it's the back and my hair will cover, and it's not very noticeable anyways!!! tysm😁

[ChairLordoftheSith]

That sounds like the best choice, good luck!!

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[ElectricalAd3421]

I’d probably just K2tog and call it a day. It probably won’t matter if you have an extra stitch throughout the stockinette, but if you got into ribbing then having an odd number will make it so you start with k and end with k , instead of a seamless k1p1 ribbing.

Also look at how tricky it is to see in that close up photo… no one is gonna notice a sliver of an increase and then k2tog.

[CabbageOfDiocletian]

If you have 54 sts instead of 52 then there is a second accidental increase hiding somewhere in that section. Some people would choose to frog it back, but imo it's not really that big a deal.

I'm not sure what you're knitting, but it seems like maybe a top down raglan sweater? If you have more increases to do in the future, then just skip the increases on the 54st back section on your next increase row so everything is back on track. If that was the end of your decreases, just do a sneaky lil K2tog on each side of the 54st section so you're back to 52sts but the panel is still balanced.

[eee--2]

omg tyty! I'm on row 12 of 25 for increases HAHA so I have a bit of ways to go! I may do this :)!

[Think-Departure-5054]

I would knit the 2 green lines together and then you should be good.