Knitting Rites of Passage
* Deciding that the sport-weight yarn you found that you just love looks "small enough" for that lace-weight project you want to make. * Spending hours making one of your first sweaters for someone who will absolutely never wear it. * Presenting a mother-to-be with a precious, hand-knit baby sweater in a gorgeous yarn--only to have it meet it's death in the washing machine because no one with a baby has time to hand-wash anything except the baby * Not checking gauge "just this once" because you always get gauge and ending up with a cabled tent * Finding yourself with bags of the ugliest yarn ever that you just bought because it was more than 50% off * Creating the king of snarls before discovering that yarn in hanks must be wound into balls before knitting * Giving a knitted gift to someone (usually a relative) who feels the need to actually tell you that he or she doesn't like it * Discovering that you twisted the cable the...