The Miscalculation of Stitchwork

So there's this think in knitting called 'dropping a stitch', its when a stitch falls from your needle and creates a run in the pattern. It is seen like a horizontal line in the middle of your knitting - it apparently can be 'picked up' if you know what your doing - but most commonly people won't notice the fallen stitch until its too late and it creates a hole in your knitting.

 Well this was my second knitting lesson. Did not go according to plan at all. Suffice it to say with my' amazing knitting skills' I managed to bypass the normal stitch dropping saga and go straight to 'crazy twisted wool patch with extra bubble of wool coming out one side' stitch. I would recount for you what happened, if I saw that I had indeed dropped a stitch first, or if I just did some weird non stitch stitch... however I have absolutely no clue what the hell I did, and so you must be satisfied with a picture below...

I did manage to keep knitting the row I was on even though this patch went haywire; even Nicola (My teacher) had no idea how I had done it.  Hopefully as its near the bottom and towards a corner it won't be seen...We shall see.