BellaOnline Forums Hobbies and Crafts Knitting What is your worst knitting habit ?

I tie knots and yes I read time after time, DO NOT TIE A KNOT TO ADD YARN , but I do it. Ok what is your bad habit ? <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

never finishing what I've started.

And knitting really fast to finish the row before I run out of wool... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

HA HA HA I do that too, knitting fast to finish a row before I run out of wool, like that is going to help me make the yarn stretch that far. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

OK, since I'm a newbie I didn't know that tying knots was a bad habit- so I've got that one, too! LOL <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

(How are you supposed to add yarn?)

The other thing I do, to make yarn last, is start pulling it really tight, and then it looks weird. All nice and even in the beginning and scrunched up at the end. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Another newbie, I, of course, tie knots (sorry,
Mrs. Zimmerman! one of these days I'll try your
way!).

No doubt worse than that, I think I can actually
read AND understand a pattern marked EASY now --
after beginning knitting again in October...
Sigh... I'm learning, but will be glad to get
a sense of REALITY when it comes to matching
patterns to my very basic skills!

Thank you, Eva and Bella knitters, for the much-
needed advice and support!

I'm pretty careless about blocking my finished pieces. I never pin them out. If anything, I steam them with a cool iron and get right on with sewing things together.

And, of course I tie knots! But I do go back when the piece is ready to be finished and untie the knots so I can sew in the loose ends.

I am picky, picky, picky <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> about ends and knots. No knots to cause ends to come out, and very long ends to hide for inches and inches. Makes for longer finishing off but like I said, picky, picky, picky.

Oh I do tie the two ends together during work time to hold the stitches as they should be, but like Becky I go back and untie every knot before hiding ends.

I guess worse then this is that I will add yarn where ever I feel like it. I don't do the only at the beginning of a row. I hate adding at the beginning of a row but will if I have too. <img src="/images/graemlins/wall.gif" alt="" />

MaryJeanne

Well, lets see... there's the fact that I'm a left-handed knitter and nobody quite knows how to handle that... then there's the knot tying... and the whole issues of too much/too little/too much tension on the thread.

I'm one of those "knit an hourglass" people... when I should be knitting a square.

tieing knots too....
and yes, I figure if I knit faster I won't run out yarn either.....

I haven't been knitting long enough to have any of the above habits.

But, I tend to leave my needles in reach of my son (in reach is anyplace below the roof.) He thinks he can knit and I end up having to take out knots or start over.