I have a vent to share! So I thought this would be a good “knitting vent” thread.
My vent is this : I hate, hate, hate it when a pattern is a “knit” pattern… then they have you do some stuff in crochet!
I mean, I know how to knit, not to crochet, darn it!
So that I’m not complaining alone, please join in and share your knitting vent. 
I hate when there is a KNOT or KNOTS in the MIDDLE of the Skein of Yarn!!! :wall:
When you find a most beauteous pattern and the yarn called for is either discontinued, or it is $100 a skein/ball and you need 12 of them.
YES!! Discontinued yarn in patterns. I don’t like having to try to find substitutes. Plus, when the colors have names like Eau de Nil instead of green. Or Dragonfly, Wode, Cloud, etc. Just spit it out–tell us what color it is. When you combine discontinued yarn with weird names, forget about getting anything to match the picture in the book!!
[color=red]Okay, I thought this was going to be about knitting in ventilation into sweaters. :roflhard:
I’ll go with knots in skeins of yarn, because I hate, [size=6]hate[/size], [size=7]hate[/size] weaving in tails. :wall: [/color]
This isn’t really a knit vent so much as a “people you knit for” vent. I hate it when you ask someone what they want, or have them go through patterns, and they pick the HARDEST one. 
Or worse, they say, oh whatever you want to make me. And you have NO IDEA!
My main irritation is that no one locally carries low-cost sock yarn. My LYS averages 20 bucks for enough yarn to make two socks!
I hate when I find a mistake, and having to frog the whole thing… I HATE IT :wall:
I HATE it that all three of my LYSs are closed on Mondays!! GRRRRRRR! :mad:
I hate that my credit card bills have all skyrocketed due to my yarn buying habits!! :shock: Stupid need to compulsively enhance stash!
Mine is also with a "people you knit for"
They beg and beg and beg for me to knit them something. Then when I finally give in, and take your precious knitting time to make something beautiful (in my eyes, but hey it’s my hard work) They just don’t appreciate it. ex. using it as a parrot toy (clothing by the way) or throwing it in the washer with everything else WITH bleach (even though you gave machine washing instructions) or just plain not sayng thank you. is that really too much to ask I mean really. Sorry that was a vent wasn’t it lol.
btw, those were all different people lol. Can someone PLEASE teach me how to say NO especially when I don’t want to do it, because I know better. I usually say No the first time but by the fifth I give in lol. I have a sickness.
I’m the same way! Everyone wants something. Oh well. I try to only let them choose from very simple easy projects now.
Well, I have two young children (an almost 4yo and a 7mo), so I generally get very little time to knit. What I hate is when I finally get both kids to sleep in the evening, sit down with a cup of tea and my knitting, and think “ahhh, this is nice.”
…and then the baby wakes up.
So much for knitting! :rollseyes:
I HATE it when you start on a project because it sounds like a good idea to do, then you get into it and just… don’t feel it. I am working on a baby blanket that I wanted to give a girl on the 4th… but I’ve only finished 10 rows, and I am not in love with the yarn, the pattern or even the progress… I wanna be knitting a booga bag.
I hate that I don’t have enough time to knit!
I’m with Amber, except that by the time I get to sit down with my tea and knitting I’m too tired to knit!
I have to agree with DannahK – I am FORCING myself through a throw for my husband that I REALLY don’t want to do… Don’t like the pattern so much (thought it would be interesting because it’s my first attempt at entrelac, but got over that rather quickly), don’t like the yarn so much (Homespun – really should have listened to all the people on this forum) and, in general, I’m just not feeling it… I really want to be working on the baby blanket that I bought the yarn for today. I thought that if I bought that yarn, I would hurry through the throw for DH so that I could get to the baby blanket (since they use the same size needle), but now I’m trying to find a way to justify buying another size 10 1/2 circular needle so that I can just start the baby blanket!!
Absolutely detest it when the end of the yarn not coming from the outside of the ball but from the centre and gets into a big knot - especially in a faux fur type yarn - big tangle.
I agree with Amber and Dannah- it seems as though it never fails, once I get settled in, all ready to knit away, someone wakes up or the phone rings…
Or, you think that a project is going to be so great- and you just can’t wait to get started on it- and then you start, and it SUCKS!!! I did this with beautiful yarn recently- gorgeous angora- but it is so thin, and I have too many other projects going. I decided to just wait to start on the angora, until I don’t have so many other things. (Yeah right!!)
When I accidently cast on only 1/2 the number of stitches required, and get over 1,000 sts. knit before I realize my mistake. :rollseyes: (Did this today. :lol:)
My current pet peeve is not being able to locate the yarn end (or even something fairly close) in the middle of a center-pull skein. I love the yarn I am working with right now, but I can’t seem to find the “center” end - and I usually pull out 1/4 of the skein in an effort to find it! :wall: