on and off the needles; a confession.

I've done a lot of summer knitting (still in the process, mostly).
But they hide a secret.

I suppose if my grandmother was here, looking over my shoulder or examining a piece of knit I work, she'd have taken one look and straightened me out right away.  As it is, now that I know, I've been looking through all my old pieces and thinking "Yup, there it is again.  Wrong."

*sigh.*

Skimming through a circular knitting book from the library, I stopped and read a page twice.  Then a third time... that's why my loops are never sitting right on my needles!  All this time, while I listened to the great EZ on purling, and I purl away superiorly, I never realized I was making each and every knit stitch twisted.  every.  one.

If you're not a knitter, this doesn't mean much to you.  If you are, you know why, for the life of me, I could never ever ever make gauge. 

I spent an afternoon with the feeling that I should rip out the many projects on the needles and start over (yes, I am an oldest child), then the feeling that I should re-knit everything I've ever knit, just to see if it would be easier.

Then I sat down and made a bracelet.  (The size was spot on.)
And went on with my other projects, without twisting stitches. 
(Different, but you can't really tell.) 
Taking a deep breath and getting on with my (knitting) life.

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By the way, I checked, and little Greta's "in-through-the-front-door, run-around-the-back, peek-through-the-window, and-off-jumps-Jack" stitches are perfect. 
Obviously I'm the only one confused around here.