I’d be better off with a stitch dictionary, anyway.

In keeping with a theme of “bad knitting habits” (see recent post about Not Swatching), I think it’s time for me to acknowledge Bad Knitting Habit number 2: not following patterns (does it count as a theme if it’s only been brought up in two posts? Even if they’re successive ones? Perhaps [...]

In which I appreciate the value of swatching (and proceed not to bother)

So, here’s where I admit that I am a Bad Knitter. I never swatch. I hate swatching. It takes time and it takes yarn and it basically just adds that much more distance between excited cast-ons and a finished project. Since I mostly knit socks, mostly on size 1 needles, that mostly fit, I thought, for some reason, that I was above swatches. And pattern recommendations about needle sizes, come to think of it.