So I'm knitting this baby hat and it comes up with impossible instructions, which I didn't have a problem with the last time I made the hat. Somehow I must have missed them.
They say that you need to knit until the last two stitches, stitch two together and then slip a stitch, which would be fine, but shouldn't it be knit until the last three stitches, you stitch two together and then slip one, making three last stitches. I think my mind edited it out before when I made the other baby hat and things turned out fine.
It just irks my perfectionism to know that there may be more perfect instructions out there that I don't have to fix, or that have another way of dealing with the problem to come up with a better hat than one where I will have to fix instructions to make. I get really grumpy and old when it comes to crafts. I'm not one of those people who post their projects made of light and air on Pinterest. I'm more of a panicked new mother, attempting to fix my kids using impossible parental guidance from an old Mother's Day magazine.
Bawls.
Why god, why do most patterns have an error in them, especially free patterns. I think it's a secret plot to challenge knitters intellect. Thus far I have thrown up my hands at this particular baby hat, but tomorrow will have me back at it. It's for Zoe, after all. I can't give up because of one simple mistake. Plus I've already subconsciously moved past in on the first baby hat I made, so this one will have to be done the same way.
Knitters, have you experienced this? How have you dealt with errors?
Update: I don't remember sending this particular hat, but I think I finished it. I have a lot of extra hats lying around. Zoe's head is probably already too big, and I need to start thinking about toddler's patterns. I have one big hat, but 5 smaller ones, for infants. The only newborn I know of is Jessica Ventura's third, but he seems to be growing fast, too. Babies, that's the only thing, they don't stay small.
