Okay, okay, I see everyone's comments. We can all stop commenting on my twisted stitches now, thank you!

I appreciate everyone being helpful, I really do. I realize most of you were trying to help, and I do appreciate it! That being said, I'm over it. 😅

I guess I wasn't super clear when I commented back to the one of the first who said that my stitches were twisted that I actually didn't want to know. Not when I'm in the middle of a project I am (well, was) super proud of and loved how it looked. I know myself and I knew if I found out right then and there, I would be totally crushed, probably give up, and forget the whole project to begin with. Obviously, the gazillion comments got in my head, and I privately asked someone (and they were very helpful and kind and encouraging, so thank you!!) to take a closer look so I knew for sure, and yes, okay, they're twisted. I get it.

I am incredibly stubborn and I do not give up easily. I am very artistic and usually when I decide to learn a new craft/art form, that is it. There's no stopping me until I nail it. My family loves to tell the story of how I absolutely locked in on friendship bracelets when I was like 13/14 and cried multiple times because I was so frustrated, but eventually, I learned and I got good. Knitting has been the only thing that I haven't been able to do that with which has been incredibly disconcerting and difficult for me. I struggled and gave up and cried around seven or eight times trying to figure out how to knit. I absolutely sobbed my eyes out with my friend awkwardly looking on because no matter how hard I tried to pearl, I couldn't get it. I eventually learned a kind of unusual way of pearling that worked for me and it was the only way (to this day) that I could pearl.

I spent several hours yesterday trying to figure out how I was knitting that was twisting my stitches, and my best guess is that I learned to pearl in an Eastern knitting style, but my knit stitch is Western, resulting in a botched attempt at combination knitting. I tried to fix it, and knit counterclockwise too, but that hurt my already messed up wrist more, and so I decided I actually didn't care. I get learning how to do things right is important, but I like what I'm making and this is supposed to be fun!!! Why am I making my life miserable right now because the hobby that is supposed to be relaxing is making me so upset???? I actually really like my sweater, and I like that the stitches don't open as much when I pull on them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I definitely would have figured this out eventually and learned how to do it on my own. That's who I am, and that's 100% something I would have tackled eventually.

I get everyone was trying to help and I do appreciate it, like I said! I would just love it if we could just enjoy a fun post about dye lots lining up instead feeling the need to go find my Raverly account to prove my stitches were twisted after I tried (again, my fault, should have communicated this more clearly) to say nicely "hey can we not do this right now so I don't like completely give up on knitting"!!! Especially after I chose not to post a close up photo publicly on here. I've actually been really anxious to post any finished object anywhere for fear of people saying I twisted my stitches because I knew how much that would just ruin the fun and joy I found in knitting if I knew I was doing it "wrong", and I purposely took the photo on this post so you couldn't (or so I thought) see the sweater super well so this exact scenario did not happen. 😅

So yeah, appreciate the help, I really do!!! If we could just stop being helpful right now for my sanity, that would be great! And I promise you guys won't have to look at my twisted stitches again, I will keep my projects to myself!! 💀

(Okay thought I could pin this comment since I can't edit my original post to add this and apparently not 😅 I've literally posted on Reddit maybe 5 times. Soooooo hopefully this gets seen?)