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draymer
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USA
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 Posted - 02/08/2012 : 12:53:57 PM
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Can't believe I was this dumb. I am making the Bow Neck Cardigan from the Holiday 2010 Vogue Knitting. It calls for a provisional cast on, followed by 35" of P1K1 ribbing. I was done with the first side (and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be cause it was boring!), and started taking out my provisional cast on. Well, I had used a crochet cast-on, and I must have knit into the wrong bump, cause it wasn't coming out nicely. I decided I didn't like it, so I cut the knitting, thinking I would put it on the needles about an inch up (it was 1 am). Anyway, I pulled the whole @#$@#$ thing out. Oh well. Instead of 25 stitches, I think I will redo it with 19 stitches, because the tie looked wide to me, and the drape wasn't what I wanted.
What a bone-headed move. What is your worst knitting move? |
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anderknit
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 02/08/2012 : 5:47:51 PM
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Seriously, 35" of ribbing ripped out? Yikes!!
My worst knitting move ... I don't know, really. I've had a lifetime of them. For me, since the process is so much more important to me than the "product", I never really mind if I have to do something over. For example, I just made a hat. Before I finished it, I started two others and ripped them out. One was almost finished when I decided it looked more like a shower cap than a beret, so - poof - gone! I really didn't mind - I had enjoyed the knitting but knew I would hate the product.
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " |
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Ditzy Girl
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 02/08/2012 : 7:04:28 PM
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Been there, done that, so I can symphathize. Pretty much what you just described. Once you are past the point where this happened you will be happy that you did it because you weren't happy with it the way it was. Mine was a sweater and is finished now and when I wear it I am happy that i had to redo it. I usually just leave things if they are not too bad.
Zola, Seattle, Wash.
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NutmegOwl
Gabber Extraordinaire
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Posted - 02/09/2012 : 07:35:05 AM
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Isn't there something incredibly freeing about an activity that allows you "do-overs" this way? I see what happened as an opportunity. Sure, you can lament the Knitting Time Lost. But in the end, your FO will please you more, and you'll be glad it happened. Sometimes the Knitting Goddess has her reasons, you know, and we mere mortals are unable to see them. ;)
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One Stitch at a Time
Chatty Knitter
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Posted - 02/09/2012 : 09:29:40 AM
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For me it was a shawl. While I don't remember it exaclty, it was a simple stitch in a rectangular shape. I was binding off. In the middle of the bind-off, the phone rang. I put the project down to take the call. When I returned to finish it, I sat on the project as I picked it up and pulled some of the stitches off the needles and could not, could not make it right. I became so angry and frustrated I ripped it all out.
I too think of myself as a process knitter, but how many levels of stupid was that?
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Gibson Girl
Chatty Knitter
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2012 : 11:59:04 AM
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| I just finished a beautiful top/blouse (?) in a lace pattern - really adictive actually or I would never have finished it. But first I did the gauge thing and got it to gauge. Knitted the whole back and decided the yarn was to stuff for this pattern. So I bought the specified yarn and knitted another back. I regretably decided it was too large, however I was knitting on size 2 needles in the smallest size, What to do....switched to size 1 needles and barged ahead. Yes, that's knitting two backs that needed to be ripped out. The completed top fits like a dream and I almost regretted not getting to do the pattern any longer. Of course after all that practice I had the pattern totally memorized. |
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KathyR
Permanent Resident
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/12/2012 : 5:21:05 PM
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Hmmm, well I don't really have a horror story to match yours, that's for sure. Just recently, though, I was knitting a sock top-down and was about halfway through the heel flap when I finally compared the sock in the pattern photo with the one I was knitting. They didn't match! I looked at the pattern instructions; you guessed it, I was knitting them wrong! Four rows of pattern and I was only knitting the first two. Sigh. I liked the sock in the pattern better than mine so started another from the other end of the ball (fortunately I was knitting one at a time!) to see how it would go. Much quicker as well as nicer.
As for your provisional cast on problem, have you tried casting straight on to the needle with the crochet hook? There are clips on YouTube showing this very easy method. I think Lucy Neatby has one which is particularly good. No problem with getting the wrong bump then!
KathyR
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.
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Grand-moogi
Seriously Hooked
Australia
773 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2012 : 04:09:51 AM
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OOOOOh Yuk! I sympathise with all of you. You seem to take it so philosophically! About 45 years ago I was knitting a cable jumper for my boyfriend. I finished it and gave it to him and he tried it on. It came down to his knees. I tried to cut it off and knit the basque down again but of course it did not work. I ended up pulling the front and back undone and reknitting it. Of course by then he was no longer my boyfirend so I gave the jumper to my brother who wore it gratefully for many years.
My daughter has a horror story about a Humpty Dumpty jumper. Maybe I can get her to tell you that story.
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Solaris
Permanent Resident
Canada
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 1:00:28 PM
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My worst knitting move (because I really, really should know better by now), is knitting when I'm very tired, because then I always fall asleep with my knitting in my lap, while I'm in the middle of a row, and the stitches slide off my needles. I have a hard time picking up the stitches again, especially when I'm doing lace. I did it again last night  .
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anderknit
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 3:51:17 PM
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I just have to say, I love grandmoogi's line: "Of course by then he was no longer my boyfriend."
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " |
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jaymeKnits
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 03/12/2012 : 11:41:34 AM
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This is usually the point that I shove the whole thing in a bag and to the back ofba closet or drawer. I then deny it's existence for a while until I come up with something completely different to do with the yarn.
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emmyc
Chatty Knitter
USA
119 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2012 : 04:27:59 AM
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Nothing too horrible, but I did just start a sock (Jane Cochran's lovely Hickory). 1 inch in, I wasn't loving the yarn or the color, but I just kept going and going, through the leg and turning the heel. Thank goodness I came to my senses and ripped the whole thing out.
I feel so much better
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llmcguire
Warming Up
USA
50 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2012 : 06:55:29 AM
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| My worst move to date is SO fresh in my memory having done it just last week. I signed up for the orangeflower KAL, to start March 1, ending April 30 using any of orangeflowers yarns. The Stockholm Scarf has been in my queue calling my name and I thought it would be perfect for orangeflower bfl dk in the midnight colorway. I started late, 3/6, and decided to CO 224 not the 252 suggested by the pattern because, well, I'm short. Using the Twisted German Cast-on, which I had to re-learn, I was off and knitting. It took about two nights to finish the CO. There were sections that didn't have the same tension, so I pulled those off and re-did them. All was well, I counted and recounted, I swear a million times; made sure the stitches weren't twisted, and recounted for what I said would be the very last time. All is good. The pattern is made up of 4 different rows of a 7 stitch pattern that repeats 32 times on a row. It took me a bit to get the hang of the pattern (I can be dense at times), but about three inches into the cowl, I noticed something odd. It just wasn't laying right. But why? I did everything correctly... didn't I? That little bit of doubt allowed the voice (we all know THAT voice that lives in the back of our heads) to say, "You twisted your cast-on". UGH!! The only cure is a massive frog. I've read horror stories of such and took great care and extra, extra time to avoid such pain and misery, with no effect. //Breathe// I've restarted, having becoming a professional Twisted German Cast-oner, that part went much quicker. I'm l.o.v.i.n.g. the yarn. Goodness, bfl could be my bff for real! And the different layers of colors are a real treat for my eyes. But the project has the feeling of stupidness that is just not making me want to knit it. I feel as though I'm a Junior in Knitting School but this just took me back right back to Fourth grade. UGH! Draymer, I feel your pain. |
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crafty1mjw@comcast.net
Seriously Hooked
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2012 : 7:19:03 PM
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Oh boy! For me, it was the first pair of slipper socks I ever knit. At the time, I was having some swelling in my ankles & feet, so I knit up the large size. Well, by the time I was finished, the socks looked like u could fit elephants' feet in them! I sure was extra-careful about sizing after that experience!
craftymjw
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