if you could just stay out of the frog pond you might actually finish whatever it is you are making? 
I have had to frog this hat 5 times nowā¦ first was the wrong neddlesā¦ then the yarn just wasnāt looking rightā¦ and itās just kept going like that. AAAAHHHH!!! Iāve frogged enough to make 2 hats now!
Just think of it as a ābad knit dayā and tomorrow will be better 
If Iām making a lot of mistakes one day, I take a good look at whether those are project threatening, by project threatening I mean Iām either consistently gaining or losing stitches. Iāve had days where I just forced myself to plow ahead and get somewhere for the day, regardless of mistakes. The more you frog and are frustrated with things that arenāt quite right, the more youāll find things that arenāt quite right. Decide your acceptable error margin, set it significantly below perfect and just finish something. If youāre not sure about it, donāt weave in ends or block. Then leave it overnight and see how it looks in the morning.
Thereās something extremely liberating about knitting through a project and leaving the small mistakes. Perfection is for God. Itās the little (and occasionally big) things that arenāt quite right that make us human, so why shouldnāt our knitting reflect that?
That being said, I made a conscious decision when I started knitting to only frog if I was going to lose the project if I didnāt. I do usually look for the mistake, but for the most part, I just keep knitting. If, the day after I finish a section, I donāt like how it looks or something is glaringly wrong, then Iāll usually do the section over, but once Iām knitting, that time is only for forward progress. Trips to the frog pond only happen at the beginning of the session. Anything else is short visits by Tink-erbell to fix something small that I caught in a few stitches.
You should try it. Even if you have to start a project over at the beginning of the next day, youāll feel a bit more like you made some progress when you set your knitting down at night.
Iām having the same bad knit dayā¦ frogged a pair of socks 3/4 times nowā¦
Can I get this tattooed on the back of my eyelids??? This is brilliant!
Have you done a swatch in the stitch pattern? That sometimes helps. Sometimes I if I have a tricky stitch problem I will make a āminiā item. Iāll just try whatever looks new or different to see how it turns out. Deep breath. You can do it! As Ingrid says, āTrust the pattern!ā
I canāt knit much because of pain issues, but I feel this way about a sweater Iām making my husband. Grrrr. :wall:
Anyway, Check to make sure there are no pattern problems. I know somewhere on the forum thereās a list of where to check for different magazines and booksā¦
The smallest problem was that I had the spiral going the wrong way. All of them have been early in the hat, but all have been things that I really have fix.
I do look at small mistakes as making it special. Thatās what makes it hand made.
And a big part of it was the yarn I was using. I love it but itās just not good for a hatā¦ maybe a hotmittā¦
And the other part is that itās a pattern Iām making up. Just a learning curve there.
thanks so much for the encouragement and letting me vent about itā¦
I guess this is when you know you love knittting, you keep at it even when you seem to be frogging or tinKing more than knittingā¦
I think that today is just an off day for everyoneā¦
It started off ok (except for my arthritis flaring up in my knee, back, and neck) then got progressively worseā¦ the closest i got to knitting was taking the sleave of the sweater that iām working on from my yarn bin to the livingroom and then putting it back in the yarn bin (which is in the office)ā¦ beyond that I havenāt done anything craft wise (or any way wise).
I am the weird one that actually likes frogging? I mean, I understand the frustration in having to do something over and over, but I find the process of frogging to be a little release of some sort.
I agree that I donāt normally frog unless itās a project ending error. I am a huge fan of tinking if I find the mistake in the same row. Otherwise it gets left in and adds a bit of humanity to the project. KWIM?
Have you had a chance to look at the book, Knit Fix: Problem Solving for Knitters by Lisa Kartus? Perhaps she offers some solutions to the problem other than frogging. She, too, suggests a knitting philosophy that accepts mistakes. She has saved more than one of my projects from frogging.
I agree thereās a balance between accepting mistakes and frogging everything.
For me, though, learning that I could frog part of a project and fix it or re-do it right was a hugely satisfying lesson. My first couple of projects, I had to run to a friend asking, āwhat about this??? help!ā
So I considered frogging actually a step forward in the knitting processāanother skill learned, as I recognized my mistakes and knew what to do about them.
Another thing I have learned is to set things aside for a bit. I am learning to knit socks, and choose a pattern that I didnāt quite understand at the beginningā¦so after a few rows, I frogged back, but then I couldnāt figure out where I was, and got frustrated. I ended up ripping out the entire thing, but rather than start back immediately, I cast on a hat on larger needles in an easier pattern. When that is finished, Iāll pick up the socks and give it another go.
Sometimes a change of pace really helps.