"mirjam" wrote in message
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Yesterday while traveling by Bus i saw that i lost a stitch in my
knitting and wasn`t really happy with the result , thus i unravelled
the knitted part ,,, a woman next to me was amazed , and asked why i
unravelled it , i told her why !!! she said she rarely knits and when
she does she Usually has lots of mistakes , but she would never
unravel it ,,,, i told her it is a matter of age [hahah] with age one
knows that looking at errors , annoys one ,,,,,and anyway it is better
to love one`s knitting ,,,, she wasn`t convinced at all..... but i
already cast on my [re]newed knitted sts ,,,than she was amazed at my
casting on by knitting ,,,
i already knitted the length i unraveled but now i am very happy with
the result and try to make some thing new in pattern for myself ....
mirjam


I totally understand!
I'm a novice knitter, and I make lots of mistakes, so I do quite a bit of
unraveling. Sometimes I wonder why, myself. Perhaps it is, after all, my
age. If I spend the time making something, I want it right. Or perhaps it
has to do with wanting the same satisfaction from the finished product as
from the knitting itself.
Just yesterday I noticed that my second ever pair of socks had one sock
longer than the other (it is ok to laugh - I am not sure how that happened,
especially as I knit them from the toe up!). I will be putting the shorter
sock and leftover yarn on a scale and comparing the weight to the longer one
to see which sock cuff to unravel. At least I have some time before I want
to wear them, as it is turning out to be a very warm end-of-summer here in
New Jersey.

Lisa