Knitting Peeves?

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"Nyssa" wrote in message
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patterns that have CHARTS instead of WORDS!!!!

I can relate. But what REALLY drives me nuts is yarn with knots in the
middle!

Eimear

ejk wrote:
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"Nyssa" wrote in message
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patterns that have CHARTS instead of WORDS!!!!

I can relate. But what REALLY drives me nuts is yarn with knots in the
middle!

Especially when you buy a large ball or expensive yarn, and you are not
expecting this!

Katherine

"Katherine" wrote in message
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Noreen's Knit*che wrote:
"DA" wrote in message
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I don't bother to say anything, the idea that some one could
actually knit a sweater is an alien concept to this sort of person.
DA
nodding in wholehearted agreement. Same people cannot fathom someone
knitting socks, either.
JM2C
Noreen

My mother, who was one of the best knitters in the world, never understood
why I loved knitting socks.
My father, however, used to knit socks, and he understood perfectly.

Katherine


Y'know what, Katherine, your father is an inspiration!
Noreen

Noreen's Knit*che wrote:
"Katherine" wrote in message
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Noreen's Knit*che wrote:
"DA" wrote in message
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I don't bother to say anything, the idea that some one could
actually knit a sweater is an alien concept to this sort of person.
DA
nodding in wholehearted agreement. Same people cannot fathom
someone knitting socks, either.
JM2C
Noreen

My mother, who was one of the best knitters in the world, never
understood why I loved knitting socks.
My father, however, used to knit socks, and he understood perfectly.

Katherine


Y'know what, Katherine, your father is an inspiration!

Thanks. I always thought so. He also darned them. I have memories of my
father sitting at the kitchen table, with an egg cup stuck in a sock,
darning away. He was so good that you couldn't tell that the sock had ever
had a hole!

Katherine

ejk wrote:
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I can relate. But what REALLY drives me nuts is yarn with knots in the
middle!

Oh that annoys me, especially when it is a variegated type yarn, and
the join does not follow the colour changes, but misses out some colours.
On several occasions I've had to re-knit a sleeve, or a right/left side
of a jacket to match the other sleeve or jacket side.

--
Penny Gaines

WIP: waistcoat for dh, crotchet blanket, spotted fake fur cushion cover,
6x6
After that... jumper for ds, cushion for dd,
And then ... throw for sitting room, jumper for me

If you are knitting for enjoyment and have to frog you are just getting
double the enjoyment out of those same rows.


wrote in message
ps.com...
I think that a while back we had a discussion about the chunk of yarn
that comes out when trying to find the end. I think that someone
suggested yarn barf, lol, and I thought that was funny. So now each
time I look for the end of the yarn, I think of that phrase and I
laugh. It makes it less frustrating!

I rarely make anything for anyone anymore unless they ask. I find that
many people do not appreciate hand made items. My DD is alway excited
about anything I make for her, so she is the recipient of many things I
have made recently.

My pet peeve is frogging. I absolutely hate to frog even thought I
seem to have to do it a lot! Sometimes I crochet when my mind is
elsewhere and then before I know it, I have done a few wrong stitches,
shortened a row, whatever! But, frog I must. I don't like to finish
something that has a lot of mistakes in it. That's just me.

Diane

I once had two balls of variegated yarn and they were wound in opposite
directions so the colors came off the ball in a different order. I had to
rewind the entire second ball before I could use it.

Betty

"Penny Gaines" wrote in message
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ejk wrote:
[snip]
I can relate. But what REALLY drives me nuts is yarn with knots in the
middle!

Oh that annoys me, especially when it is a variegated type yarn, and
the join does not follow the colour changes, but misses out some colours.
On several occasions I've had to re-knit a sleeve, or a right/left side
of a jacket to match the other sleeve or jacket side.

--
Penny Gaines

WIP: waistcoat for dh, crotchet blanket, spotted fake fur cushion cover,
6x6
After that... jumper for ds, cushion for dd,
And then ... throw for sitting room, jumper for me

"Katherine" wrote in message
Nyssa wrote:
I ditto the one about the hidden end in a ball of yarn.
All of the time wasted digging and rewinding instead of
getting started!

But my biggest peeve....

patterns that have CHARTS instead of WORDS!!!!

There, I've said it!

And I agree!!!

Katherine


Send me your patterns with charts, I'll send you my patterns with words. I'm
a lot happier with pictures and symbols, but give me a long list of
instructions and I'm lost! (I'm the same with driving, verbal directions
faze me, give me a map any time!)

Liz

What if you're knitting for the "wow" value?

"betty" wrote in message
news:MGHWe.298$yN1.47@trnddc03...
: If you are knitting for enjoyment and have to frog you are just getting
: double the enjoyment out of those same rows.
:
:
: wrote in message
: ps.com...
: I think that a while back we had a discussion about the chunk of yarn
: that comes out when trying to find the end. I think that someone
: suggested yarn barf, lol, and I thought that was funny. So now each
: time I look for the end of the yarn, I think of that phrase and I
: laugh. It makes it less frustrating!
:
: I rarely make anything for anyone anymore unless they ask. I find that
: many people do not appreciate hand made items. My DD is alway excited
: about anything I make for her, so she is the recipient of many things I
: have made recently.
:
: My pet peeve is frogging. I absolutely hate to frog even thought I
: seem to have to do it a lot! Sometimes I crochet when my mind is
: elsewhere and then before I know it, I have done a few wrong stitches,
: shortened a row, whatever! But, frog I must. I don't like to finish
: something that has a lot of mistakes in it. That's just me.
:
: Diane
:
:
:

Liz wrote:
"Katherine" wrote in message
Nyssa wrote:
I ditto the one about the hidden end in a ball of yarn.
All of the time wasted digging and rewinding instead of
getting started!

But my biggest peeve....

patterns that have CHARTS instead of WORDS!!!!

There, I've said it!

And I agree!!!

Katherine


Send me your patterns with charts, I'll send you my patterns with
words. I'm a lot happier with pictures and symbols, but give me a
long list of instructions and I'm lost! (I'm the same with driving,
verbal directions faze me, give me a map any time!)


Oh, it IS tempting!

Katherine