Bad Knitting Day

Okay, so usually a bad knitting day would consist of "no knitting". Not today.

I'm am so extremely frustrated. I picked out the cutest mitten pattern, did all my research, purchased the yarn, and then started.

The problem? I cannot get DK weight yarn to the gauge recommended with the pattern (27.5 stitches for 4 inches). I even went down to size 2.0mm needles (what a pain) and no way will I ever get this many stitches in 4 inches.

The recommendation for DK weight yarn is 4 inches in 21-24 stitches. This....I can do.

So I looked again at the pattern - there are some discrepancies. She has two gauges listed: 22 stitches in 4" and 27.5 stitches in 4". Not sure why two gauges. I did knit up about 3 inches of the mittens. Boy oh boy are they too large. So at least this was predictable.

To top it all off, the page on Ravelry for this pattern says it used DK weight yarn, and then below it says the gauge of the yarn was fingering weight.

Thanks for listening to my vent. Guess I'll need to find another project for this yarn.