19 First World Knitting Problems (The Last One Is Our Favourite!)

1. “There’s a ball of 4ply in my DK stash!”

You’re looking through your carefully sorted yarn stash and see the perfect shade for your next project…only to find it’s completely the wrong weight. Ugh. We suspect nargles are to blame. Back to the drawing board.

2. “I didn’t fix my interchangeable needle tips on tightly enough and now they are coming undone!”

While some interchangeable needle tips have been known to twizzle, most come with grips or tools to help stop this from happening. They’re there to be used, so use them! It doesn’t matter how strong you think you are, a bit of leverage never goes amiss. No-one wants their yarn to snag on a loose join or to lose the tip completely and watch the stitches drop off!

3. “My favourite shade has been discontinued and I have 54 others to choose from.”

The word “discontinued” can make even a grown knitter’s bottom lip wobble. It may even lead to panic-buying. Why can’t yarn spinners make all the yarns in all the colours all the time…(!)

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4. “My favourite yarn has been discontinued!”

See above but multiply the catastrophe by a million and nine! Then take a deep breath and embrace the new season goodness.

5. “My pure cashmere yarn’s not soft enough.”

Ok, so we know it’s not as soft as babies’ hair or candy floss, but seriously? It’s not like you’ve accidentally bought wire wool…or did you?

6. “I haven’t been ticking the tick boxes on my pattern.”

*face palm* Those neat little boxes aren’t just for decoration, you know! Now you have to look at your knitting and work out where you are. This can take anything between a few minutes to all night. There are few things more disheartening than being no farther ahead when you finish knitting than when you started!

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7. “My knitting needles are too long.”

Some knitters like to tuck their needles under their arm while they work. For other knitters anything over 25cm is going to get stuck in your sleeves. It’s no fun having to roll up your sleeves on a cold winter’s day, just because you’ve got 33cm needles.

8. “I’ve only used 2g of my second 100g ball of yarn”

Did that scarf really need to be an extra 10cm long? Did the dolly need that much hair? Could the pattern not have had smaller buttonholes? Were those two measly grams really worth it? We’re not convinced, but hey, more yarn for your stash!

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9. “My six-year old neice wants me to use eyelash yarn”

This is one for the yarn snobs. It can shed, the stitch definition is non-existent, you can’t unpick it and the colours are usually quite garish… but it is perfect for small people.

10. “I didn’t check my stitches weren’t twisted before joining the round and now there’s a twist in my circular knitting.”

Ah, those pesky pattern instructions that tell you what to do. You know that bit just after “join in the round”, where it says, “taking care not twist stitches”, it wasn’t a double bluff, you know.

11. “My stitch marker has pinged off and I’ve only just noticed.”

Oooh, actually, that’s a hard one to take and it’s happened to the best of us. Like with the tick boxes, there’s no way around it than to study your work closely until you spot a familiar bit. Good luck!

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12. “I lost one of my dpns, whilst I was knitting with it”

You put it to on side while you checked your row count and went to pick it up again and…gone. You had it. You definitely had it. You re-enact holding it, just to remind yourself that you definitely had it. You even look down the side of the sofa. Eventually you give up and nip out to the pub with that fiver you’ve just found down the side of the sofa. When you return, it’s there in the middle of the seat. Again, we suspect nargles.

13. “That newspaper article promoting crafts can’t tell the difference between knitting and crochet”

Yes, it bothers us too. We just have to keep reminding ourselves that at least they are spreading the crafting message. We can tidy up the translation later.

14. “My stash is so big it takes hours to search through it”

We share your pain. That happens to us too, but cheer up. You’re spending hours surrounded by yarn!

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15. “I couldn’t go to my yarn shop because I was too busy knitting”

This is purely bad time management. Knit in the evening when the store has closed. It’s not rocket surgery, people!

16. “I’ve finally finished my winter sweater but it’s now summer”

One of the perks of living in the UK is that the weather never does what it’s supposed to. There may be a chance yet. And if not, at least you’re prepared.

17. “I spent so much time teaching people to knit at my craft group that I didn’t get any knitting done”

This has happened to many a good knitter, but you are making sacrifices for the greater good and we at LK salute you.

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18. “My partner has let me have a dedicated craft room but it’s too small”

You have a whole room dedicated to craft? We want to be you! Other folks have to make do with shoe boxes under beds, tables, sofas, chairs, in the kitchen cupboards and under the stairs. Oh, to have a craft room!

19. “I’m too inspired by the free patterns on letsknit.co.uk I don’t know which to make first”

Toys, homewares, accessories, baby knits, garments, we’ve got hundreds of free patterns on our website. #Sorrynotsorry

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