What is the most painful time consuming thing you have ever had to unravel?

When I was a teen I decided to knit myself a pair of slippers. It was a slow process which took me nearly a year. I was so proud of the results as they turned out perfect. I got to wear them once and one of them disappeared. We searched the house and couldn't find it. My parents chewed me out for being so sloppy and loosing the one slipper. Well at the time we had a Royal Standard Poodle who was quite a character. It was a few days later when we discovered where the slipper went...into the dog and out the recycle shoot. He ate the slipper!!! It turned out he had an appatite for wool! I didn't have the heart to knit another one. My worst nightmare in unraveling was a vest that a neighbor was having me knit for her. It was a detailed pictorial knit with tons of color changes. It was sheep in a pasture with buildings in the background and clouds, grass, flowers etc. I got the back of the vest finished and it turned out to be waaay to large (no I didn't check the gague...I do it now!). So, I spent three days taking out the work (it was done in fuzzy yarn-ick!). I checked the gague and re did the vest. It turned out beautiful, except the neighbor was vague about the size and it still turned out to be too large for the woman. My payment for all the work- $20. To this day I don't knit for others!

How painful for you! I've had a sweater where, about 4 hours of knitting in, I realized I was twisting my stitches. I could not figure out how or why. I had to frog the entire thing, and when I knit it again, I kept having to tink because I kept twisting the stitches.

Last summer I was doing a friend a favor and babysat her son. He must have had the triple 6's on him somewhere because he was pure evil. He got a hold of one of my boots and started tying knots in the laces. I knew that trouble was brewing because he was being wayyyy too quiet. The kicker is that he refused to tie his own shoes (because his mom did it for him) but had a complete blast tying knots in mine. It took me the better part of an hour t get the knots out. Rest assured, that was an hour that I billed her double for.

I have had to take apart quilt blocks that were too crooked to use other wise. It is totally annoying and sometimes I think it is just easier to toss the block and start all over again . In the past I have tried to make a pair of slacks for my daughter, I got them mostly all sewed, and had her try them on . She tried them on and they didn't fit, I got fed up and tossed them instead of trying to fix them . That was my last attempt to sew clothes for her.

I am a fairly new knitter and had only recently started by first scarf. I was enjoying the repetative motions of knitting and think that this will definitely turn into a new hobby for me. But that scarf was taking forever and I had dropped a couple of stitches along the way. After about a million (exaggerating) rows, I sat back and looked at the darn thing. Not only was it hideous, but it was taking so long because I made it waaaay to wide for a scarf. I had been working on it on and off for quite some time, so last night, it was a tug of war decision on whether or not to unravel the whole thing and start over... But I did! And man did it hurt to watch all that work go back around a ball of yarn. Back to the drawing board!

well when i first started knitting i messed up alot and the only way i know how to fix it was to take it all out start all over again but over time it has taught me to pay more attention to what i am doing and focus more so i do not mess up i think the worst thing was when i spend months working on a part of a sweater and right before the end i accidentally skipped a few stitches and had to start all over or else there would have been a big hole in that part of the sweater i get so mad at myself when something like that happens i spend so much time working on a project then mess up and have to unravel it and i just feel like i wasted all that time

Every once in a while I will make something using 2 strands of yarn. I have learned the hard way that if I don't like it once I get started - tough! Frogging double stranded items is the PITS and then some. And heaven forbid you use 2 strands of anything but regular worsted - that makes it beyond misery!! I try to avoid 2 stranded projects for this very reason - too many failures that descend into very big messes!!!