- Nearing the end of a long tail cast on and realizing the long tail is about two inches too short.
- Patterns that don’t have row numbers.
- Forgetting a yarn-over.
- Yarn snobs (not everybody can afford to buy $25 skeins, dammit)
- Realizing the size needles you need are the one size you don’t have.
- Having to go to work instead of being able to stay at home and knit.
- Splices in the middle of a skein.
- Realizing halfway through a project that you really should have taken the time to make a gauge swatch.