Stressed out over knitting! ( a wee rant)

I did find knitting difficult when I had a shoulder injury a few years ago, that's why I took up crochet (learning from books and YouTube videos).

I'm not a knitter, baby jackets were about all could manage, before my 2 GC were born I knitted quite a few for them,
I also had a go at knitting a pram blanket, which was knitted in squares and stitched together then the edging crotched in pink for a girl or blue for a boy, but I can't knit now as I have athritis in my wrists and fingers.

annodomini

I've been knitting - on and off - for 80 years but still get bored with it from time to time. I still have an unfinished blanket intended for my first great-grandchild who has just turned 3. Mind you, in the meantime I have made her two cardigans which she has now outgrown. If she has a sibling, perhaps the blanket might be finished. In a couple of years I could teach her to knit...

Talking of UFOs (Unfinished Objects) I’m still using up the pastel variegated yarn left over from a cardigan intended for a dd when she was maybe 7. She is now 45!

In the past decade I’ve used it for dolls’ clothes and blankets, mini bunnies with Creme Eggs inside for a school Easter sale, and the invisible bits of the mouth pockets of the big ‘worry eaters’ I make. There’s still quite a bit left!

Don't mention UFOs!!

Talking of UFOs (Unfinished Objects) I’m still using up the pastel variegated yarn left over from a cardigan intended for a dd when she was maybe 7. She is now 45!

I started knitting a grey school cardigan for DD when she was in the Sixth form. I think she finished school before I finished the cardigan.
Finally I turned it into a jumper which went off to a Syrian charity about 8 years ago, when she was 42.

Sounds like you’re frustrated with knitting totally normal! Take a break, breathe, and come back to it later. Yo have got this!

I remember having my first baby and showing a pair of tiny booties to my midwife that I'd just bought. I thought they were really cute. She just shrugged and said "Mmm, he'll have grown out of those in the first two weeks."
I go with the others here that say a blanket is the best bet. Even when child has grown, they can still use it as a cuddle rug.