My Knitting Sucks Sunday
November 5, 2007
Lest you think I’m miserable all the time, I have happy stuff planned for Favorite Things Monday. But today is My Knitting Sucks Sunday. See … I signed up for a swap thinking that I’d need something complex to keep my mind off my life. (red flag #1) I selected a pattern. I ordered yarn. I bought the pattern. I swatched. I got gauge. And I cast on. Again and again and again. (red flag #2) Each time I got the wrong number of stitches. I was getting discouraged, so I left the knitting alone (red flag #3) and bought a condo and a car. The deadline passed. I felt guilty. So I tried again tonight. I poured a glass of wine. (red flag #4) I cast on properly with the correct number of stitches! But ( … wait for it … ) it’s too big. As in, I’m trying to knit a knee sock, not thigh highs.
Frig a dig! I should rip it out, right?
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Cass | November 5, 2007 at 1:15 am
Woohoo! Home and car all in one weekend? Nice job! I hope the knitting works it’s way out…Bad knitting makes me cranky!
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Kelly | November 5, 2007 at 1:35 am
Sorry to hear about your knitting :(. Great news about the condo and car, that must be a relief. I am thinking about you and hoping for the best outcome for all of this. I think that was horrible of her, leaving that mix tape note out for you to see and doing nothing about it even after you requested otherwise.
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Mel | November 5, 2007 at 2:11 am
Yeah, just accept it as a zen exercise and frog. You think maybe you were just a *wee* bit more tense when you swatched?
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PainterWoman | November 5, 2007 at 4:12 am
Mel’s on track, I think. There must be something educative (and useful) that happened as those red flags were ascending. Congrats on condo and car!
(And your flaming wok actions are worthy of drama in a theater. I was concerned that the wok was going to be thrust upon Xifey in such a way as to render her unconscious. Your ending was better.)
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Rabbitch | November 5, 2007 at 6:04 am
Um, I suppose you could write and ask how big her knees are but yes, I think that perhaps that needs to make a trip to the frog pond.
Is it cruel of me to be gigglesnorting?
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Manise | November 5, 2007 at 7:54 am
To the frog pond my dear- sorry.
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Lisa | November 5, 2007 at 9:12 am
Sorry….off to the pond and Mel is right.
CONGRATS on the car and the condo!
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Kit | November 5, 2007 at 11:09 am
Mel’s right. Tension is screwed. Thing is, tension is going to be screwed for a while yet. Scarf, blanket, shawl? Something where wildly varying tension from day to day might be a design feature. Or just play with yarn with the intention of frogging for the time being. And get yourself and the Little Man AWAY from there pronto. The condo and the car are good moves. Now pack yourself. How soon do you move?
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Bertha | November 5, 2007 at 11:09 am
Wow, yay for car and condo!
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Becca | November 5, 2007 at 11:22 am
Echoing earlier comments, way to go on the car + condo! How soon can you move? And I hope you are planning some sort of grand parting gesture.
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Kat | November 5, 2007 at 11:24 am
It’s never to chilly for a dip in the frog pond.
Congrats on the car and the condo. You must feel like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders.
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Danielle | November 5, 2007 at 11:49 am
Sorry, but I do think that a good frogging is needed. Gauge is a bastard, swatches lie, etc. etc. Maybe the wine loosened you up too much?
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Lucia | November 5, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Often my knitting will look too big after a couple of rows and then tighten up… but not that much. Sorry, dude, frog it is. (Nice tubular cast-on.)
Congrats on the condo and the car! And, re the previous post, you rock.
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Amy | November 5, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It kills me to write it, but yeah. I think the frog pond.
At least you have a great condo and a great car?
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Sneaksleep | November 5, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Ya car! Yay condo! Boo frog pond! (But that’s where it has to go, alas. But you already knew that(
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Marcy | November 5, 2007 at 2:24 pm
That’s what I always do when the depression gets too deep–go buy a condo and a car.
Well done!
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Dorothy | November 5, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Awesome news on the condo and car! Glad you have a way out.
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femiknitter | November 5, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Congrats on the condo and the car!
As for the knitting, hmm. You could try knitting few more rows to see if it tightens up and sort of comes together (I find the first few rows of my socks always seem big but tighten up as I knit more), but I’m guessing you will need to frog. Painful as it is, it will be better in the long run.
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Beth S. | November 5, 2007 at 3:08 pm
hahahahahahahahaha huge sock!
(I’m laughing with you, of course, not at you.)
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Ruth | November 5, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Um …. yeah.
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Rhonda the Stitchingnut | November 5, 2007 at 3:55 pm
The “tightening up” as you knit more sounds plausible …
remember the cables your going to do in this sock may tighten it up considerably.
But then … maybe not.
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Kat with a K | November 5, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Yay new condo and car!
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Julie | November 5, 2007 at 8:23 pm
You could just decide it’s a garter and call it a day…
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Sara | November 6, 2007 at 8:30 am
is that the yarn that was so tightly wound into a ball??
I think it’s just cantankerous yarn.
If the sock has a lot of cabling, it has a chance of being ok. Knit for another inch or too and call it chance at having a whole lot of bang for your knitting buck if you have to frog it anyway?
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weeza | November 6, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I spent hours working out how to do a tubular cast on for a sock once. Rip, reknit, rip, reknit. I got it perfect and then after feeling really pleased with myself I realised I had cast on all the stitches and not half to start off with. I toyed with finding someone with enormous ankles to give it to (or maybe making one of those mega socks you put both feet in) but in the end… rip, reknit. It looks like a great start for a hat, though!