The most annoying mistakes you make when knitting.

Trying to knit anything wearable!!!!! I can crochet and sew but my knitting is something to be believed I can't keep the tension right.

An intarsia pattern! I was so busy following the complicated pattern I forgot to do all the decreases for the sleeves ☹ so I had to undo lots of rows and start again.

I can never get the sides to look neat when they say slip a stitch or start the row with a knit stitch. Mine are always bulky.

shysal

My worst mistake was knitting two left fronts of a cardigan. I never did undo it and finish it!

Oh dear! That must have been disheartening.

I used to have a knitting machine so actually doing a stocking stitch part of a child’s garment was really quick. I knitted a raglan cardigan and when I put all the bits on the needles to make the neckband I had :-
Left front, sleeve, back, sleeve, right front, sleeve.
It wasn’t till I went to pick up for the front bands I noticed I had made something for a three armed child!
I hand knit now and oh, I feel the pain of knitting half the first row with the casting on tail! It’s impossible to tink it back so I just have to start again.

B9exchange

My father regularly used to ask my mother 'are you going backwards or forwards at the moment?'

That’s very often me when following a complicated (for me) pattern. 😂

My worst mistake was knitting two left fronts of a cardigan. I never did undo it and finish it!

Witzend

AskAlice

I just think you're all amazing to be able to knit things like cables and fancy stitches. I wish I could - purl and plain are my limit!

I can’t do ‘fancy’ either - or at least I don’t bother trying, since I know it’ll end not in tears, but in a lot of having to unravel, accompanied by great deal of very unladylike language.

My biggest error is not checking the tension so often end up with a huge garment !

Twisting the stitches when joining in the round is a very annoying mistake, specially when there are hundreds of stitches and you've knitted a few rounds before noticing.

I just think you're all amazing to be able to knit things like cables and fancy stitches. I wish I could - purl and plain are my limit!

Ages ago on a cabled sweater for a child, I realized I had cabled the wrong way on one of the cables, but I didn't realize the mistake until the back was complete, and it was near the bottom. I'm afraid I left it....

I did the same once on a diamond eyelet pattern, where one of the yarn-overs was off by a stitch, only realized once I was nearly complete.

My father regularly used to ask my mother 'are you going backwards or forwards at the moment?'

I have been knitting with a gorgeous soft thread best described as eyelash effect. The trouble is if you drop a stitch theres no way it can be caught not by me anyway. I have done it a few times being hasty finishing what I am doing. It’s impossible to catch up with the stitch because of the thread being the way it is.
I haven’t picked up knitting needles for years but taken it up again for dementia patients. Anyone else more experienced than me could probably solve it but I end up undoing lines of knitting!