A knitter’s list of pet peeves:
10. A random knot in the middle of an expensive skein of yarn that needs to be either cut out, or worked around with the hopes that it won’t show up on the right side. Which it inevitably does.
9. Whether you have a cat or a dog, they will undoubtedly destroy the $20 ball of carefully hand-wound silk that you left on your coffee table while you were peeing.
8. Yarn is way less expensive online but NEVER accurately represented in terms of color, so unless you’re familiar with the brand you have no idea what will show up in your mailbox.
7. Ladies at your LYS (Local Yarn Shop) refuse to believe you know what you are doing unless you’re 65 years old. Even when you walk in wearing a sweater that you’ve made. They’ll ask you where you bought it, then they’ll recommend you try a different yarn because “that one really isn’t for beginners.”
6. No matter how great the book you are buying SEEMS, you will never want to make more than 3 or 4 of the patterns in it, you will probably really only make ONE, and you will have spent $30 on the book that is now gathering dust on your shelf.
5. Everyone you know will ask you to make something for them, they will offer to pay you, they will never actually follow through, they just expect that you’ll find the perfect pattern for them and painstakingly knit it for them, present it to them and have it perfectly fit without ever giving them measurements or ideas of what they want.
4. It is ALMOST a gaurantee that if you start making a project for your current s.o., the relationship will end before you finish the scarf/sweater/hat/etc. (This one isn’t always true!)
3. Once you’ve finally finished the sweater you’ve been working on for 3 weeks, put that baby on and lay on the couch, your dog/cat will jump on you with nails extended, catch a stitch, and pull. GOOD LUCK BLOCKING THAT OUT!
2. Even if you buy the EXACT amount of yarn the pattern you’re using calls for, you will still end up with 5 skeins too many, already wound and unreturnable.
AND THE NUMBER ONE PET PEEVE:
1. When you finally do give your hand-knit hungry friend the scarf that you indeed picked out and made for them, they will say “THANKS!” toss it in the back of their car, and you will probably never see it again, on them or otherwise.
2 years ago • Notes