How to do the Drop Stitch for Lost Road Trip Cardigan

The lost road trip cardigan is by far my most popular, best selling design. There are two questions that I am quite frequently asked on that pattern and figured I’ll make a post to address them.

Question One: Can I make this without the holes and tears, and if so, how?

Answer: Yes, you can! All you are going to do is skip over the additional steps within the pattern and knit in stockinette stitch. The only make ones you will do, will be for the sleeve increases.

Question Two: What does drop a stitch mean?

Answer: You’re literally going to just drop the stitch off your needle as instructed. You’ll notice a few rows prior, you will have made a new stitch at that same point and that’s going to prevent it from unraveling further down. I have made a YouTube video on how to do this so you can see.:)

Many people have searched online for tutorials on how to just drop a stitch, but don’t find an answer as that’s not really a common thing you’d intentionally do. That would be more of a mistake, so the tutorials tend to be on how to pick up a dropped stitch. But no worries, the ones in this pattern are not a mistake.