I must be in a bit of a funk this week, because all the small things are making me stabby. Small things like when you put something somewhere and it immediately falls on the ground. STAB. Small things like feeling cramped on Metra and having people bump in to you. STAB. Small things like not being able to figure out how to fix one stitch (ONE!!!) then spending two hours trying to figure it out*. STAB STAB STAB. Sigh. Knitting is supposed to relax me. What the eff is my problem this week?!
Get a grip, Kim.
*I finally reached out to the pro and mostly fixed it, but have no idea how I effed it up, sigh.
It’s so pretty!!! 😍😍😍
Thanks! The colors look really nice together 🙂 I am already on the fifth row.
It is so beautiful, he will love it!! Hopefully it’s not too frustrating! 😀
Thanks! It’s really not, I just need to pay better attention!
Ooh, “the pro,” I’m honored! It’s kind of hard for me to diagnose from that one picture without the pattern to reference, but it looks like the wonky stitch wasn’t bound off (or slipped?) correctly. That might be why it’s so big and not really attached to anything?
Also, maybe because you’re knitting this for someone, you feel more pressure and it’s more frustrating. I’ve learned that like, sometimes, knitting is going to cause me more stress (for example, if I try to knit while watching TV where I really need to pay attention…), so I just know to put it down for awhile.
You are the Pro!!!! 😀 <3
I think you got it right with your earlier diagnosis. I am going to pay closer attention now and do lifelines every 10 stitches.
That is exactly what is going on. My snister is not putting pressure on me at all, but I want it to be beautiful 🙂 I do need to learn to put it down, but then all I do is think about it!!! GAH.
Some days the mood is just on edge – I think we all have those spells. try a word search or something for a few hours and pick it up again later.
I definitely need something to distract me from it!!!
I hear you…sometimes knitting makes me stabby, too. I was trying to fix something recently when I remembered that my knitting bestie Stephanie Pearl-McPhee said to look at the back of your work if you can’t figure it out from the front – and by god, she was right. Well, in that instance. Sometimes, you just need a break and someone else’s eyes.
I was trying looking at the back and it was telling!!! That is a good tip. However, I still couldn’t figure mine out. Ha – it seemed like I dropped a stitch but didn’t know how since I was meticulously counting. My friend figured it out for me… and I decided to just start the whole thing over with lifelines. It’s a baby blanket for my snister and I want it to be PERFECT!!!! (I had made other very minor mistakes as well).
So you figured out what was up with your mistake?
This just points out to me how much more I have to learn. I can pick up a dropped stitch easily in stockinette and other stitches, but not with the more complex stuff!
I’ll be honest, on the majority of my projects, I’ve knitted it more than once, or at least a good part of it more than once (says the perfectionist). Lifelines help, and I don’t use them as often as I should. Are you using dental floss for lifelines? That’s what I use – all the freebies from our checkups go into my knitting bag. Don’t worry – we use floss picks. 😉
I did figure out my mistake but it took a while. And that’s with four years of knitting under my belt – so don’t feel bad, you’re doing great!
I was thinking about using dental floss – but I will have to get more for our teeth! Ha! I don’t think I have yarn small enough, otherwise. LOL re: the floss picks!!!
Thanks for telling me that, it makes me feel better!
I have never heard of using dental floss in knitting – interesting! And even though I’ve never heard the term stabby, just by reading your post, I get the gist of what it means, and am pretty sure I’ve felt that way on a regular basis! I bet you didn’t know your blog was so educational, huh? Good luck with the knitting – I’m sure it will turn out beautiful!
Ha, that is awesome – I am happy you “learned” something! Thanks, I think it will! 🙂
Well, this post is old now, so hopefully you’re feeling better, but I TOTALLY have had weeks just like that. I would wager a guess that at least half of the times I’ve cried in my adult life–actually, maybe in my life in general–have had nothing to do with something bad actually happening, and everything to do with being in a stabby mood, where the littlest annoyances that would never bother me in general become the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Not very much fun – but hopefully you’re doing much better now!
Thank you, I am! I actually started this blanket over, and that made me feel a lot better!!!
And yes – I would totally believe that – the crying is more of an accumulation of being frustrated my everything! (except when I hit my head on something – those tears are directly from that!)