Restless Knitter

Y’know, all the experts tell you to read through a pattern before you start it. My stitch count isn’t right on row 10. I’ve done it 10 times. What am I doing wrong? If you had read the directions before you started, you’d realize that the pattern has the wrong stitch count. I’m getting gauge, but my sweater is 10 inches wide when it is supposed to be 15. If you’d read the directions before you started, you’d have noticed that by knitting to the stated gauge, your piece will indeed be 10 inches wide. I’ve seamed up my sweater and it has a round neck, but the picture shows a v-neck. WTF? If you’d read the directions, yadda yadda yadda.

I don’t examine a pattern before I start it. Send the knitting police, quick. I might glance over it, like make sure it has directions for a sleeve, a front, and a back but I don’t verify each line’s stitch count, how many stitches to pick up, gauge versus schematics, how the thing is put together… aha, there’s my problem. I’m not a fan of seaming. I know it’s a necessary evil, but it’s boring. Guess what. This shawl is full of seaming. If I had read the directions before I started this, I may have never begun. It was bad enough that I had to make four squares, but now I find out that I’m supposed to knit the edge, then sew it to the squares after they’ve been put together. Why have I not learned to read through the pattern? (Chances are, I still won’t do it in the future.)

If you want, you can see the squares together here. I really should have gotten something dark to put behind it, but I was too lazy to go upstairs and get it. Then I tried messing with the camera settings and that turned out much better on the camera than the uploaded pics. Y’all are used to suffering through my bad picture taking skills anway

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