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“Knitters Block”?
General Knitting Questions | March 23, 2008
So, last week I was attempting, with dismal results, to knit my 2nd Jan club sock. Personally, the pattern isn’t that challenging to me…I have to pay attention, but it’s well within my skill set.
I could *not* knit that sock properly to save my life. In about 3 days I knit about 2 inches (say about 5-7 hours…really), and those 2 inches needed to be ripped out in the end. Yesterday, I actually ripped back to half the ribbing on the top and started again.
I think I now know what was happening…I think I was forgetting yarn-overs, because I did it tonight, came out short with my count, 3 stitches left at the end when there should have been 4, ripped back, tried again, same result, ripped back…thought a bit then. Came to the “dropped a yo” solution–found it, was right, did NOT rip back to fix the problem, patched it and moved on. I can hear your teeth grinding from here…I know, but geez louise…I cannot bear ripping out AGAIN. Despite this, I’m almost to the foot. In 2 days–about 3.5 hours.
Have any of you had this issue? I can’t imagine I’m alone. Where you simply cannot…CANNOT…figure out what you are doing wrong, in a pattern that really shouldn’t confound you??
thought I’d toss this to the group. Discuss amongst yourselves… *grin*
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7 Responses to ““Knitters Block”?”
When this has happened to me, it has been because I was not enamored with the pattern itself, or perhaps the yarn wasn’t working with the pattern. Great liking for all the components, but together, not to my specific liking.
Mine is the heel. And I’ve started over and over and can’t manage to get the left and right ends to look the same. This new-to-me, really straightforward, giving-no-one-else-problems heel has won since the January kit arrived. Here’s where I enter into the land of the strange: I couldn’t be happier about it. Adrienne is much smarter than I am and JC made sure that the directions were PERFECT. And I can’t make it work. It’s so silly you have to laugh.
It’s encouraging that someone else is struggling a bit with the pattern and that something simple–like following the directions or paying attention to YO’s, can make it work.
Stranger than fiction, you are not alone,I took the heel out too many times to count..went back to my special heel..off to success.so I thought..too many stitches..SO I STARTED COUNTING STITCHES…then click it happened…smooth sailing..I also had another project with the same colorway..One thing I couldn’t do, is leave it alone..I had to find a solution..lay it down, pick it up. That is what knitting socks will do to you.
I have had this happen to me before with another pattern. I feel your frustration. I find that putting it aside for a few days helps — it kind of clears my head and emotions and I pick it up again and it goes better or I decide to frog it and make something else. Since you’re on sock 2, I’d advise to do your best to plug on through. Best wishes!
Well, it didn’t help that I was trying to follow the chart while attending a School Site Council Seminar! It’s easy enough, though the lace pattern was not an easily memorized one for me, so it took me a bit to get into the rythm. But yep-what progress I had made that day, I ended up having to rip back!-lol! After that, it was smooth sailing!
Everything has gone wrong with Serendipity. Maybe because I have the same feelings as Zina–I like the yarn, I like the pattern (well enough), but they don’t go together very well in my view. I had trouble with the sizing. Finished one (and yes, I swatched) but it was too big. So number 2 is going to be medium instead, and hopefully number 1 will get redone. But the simple lace pattern won’t stay in my head, and I have frogged many times over. The stripes in the picture came out on the foot, but not on the leg, which is just kind of a messy bit of different colors. This is a new heel for me, and it doesn’t work well–it makes a point that sticks out from my heel. At least I managed the first toe. And now I have taken a long break because I am too busy elsewhere, and the March yarn has come, and I love it (as does my daughter), so red may get abandoned for the time being in favor of green…
FINALLY finished Serendipity while visiting with daughter in New York City - we knit at night! I knitted size small with O needles, but changed pattern to regular heel and toe. They fit my foot the best! Loved the pattern and the yarn together and will use the pattern again with a monchromatic yarn. Thanks, Tina and sockateers!
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