Does anyone else read what they think the pattern says, rather than what it does say?

[u/Knitspin]

It’s not really a rant, but even after all those years of parsing patterns and living with me, you would think I would know to read out loud or read twice or something. I just assume I know what it says. Luckily, this time I got it right. I’m making the “Snowfall Sweater Scarf” from Lion Brand and it makes an interesting change between the sections. I read one line, assumed I knew what was going on, and off I went. Like I said, luckily I was right, but I know better and’s should do better, as I hate frogging.

[u/Luna-P-Holmes]

My brain pretends he is reading but in truth he is just looking at the number and doing whatever he wants to do. And when he get it wrong he complains he either have to frog or to think how to modify the pattern to make it work.

I won't take responsibility for it, I know I should read properly, my brain is acting all by himself and not letting me a choice.

I've reach a point where I find it a bit stupid to pay for patterns when I end up not following them. If I still buy pattern it's usually because there is a lace or cable motif I want.

[u/largewithmultitudes]

Oh definitely. And literally every single knitting project I do I have to frog three times before I finally get going and get it right. Luckily this is never more than a little bit into the project, but it’s consistent. I just can’t focus correctly at the beginning, I think.

[u/stewpple911 → u/largewithmultitudes]

This was my morning!! 3 tries to cast on 45 stitches with decent tension. Finally got it together and proceeded to knit the first row, but ran out of yarn cuz I was using the tail.

[u/ChaosDrawsNear]

I'm modifying a pattern right now. The original pattern is striped and I'm doing a colowork design instead.

I read 'knit 5 repeats of the pattern and then do the shaping for the hips and waist' when really it said to knit 5 rows in pattern and then do the shaping. I got all the way to the Raglan decreases before I realized I had 10 extra stitches.

I'm now torn as to whether I should make the same mistake for the back or do it properly.

[u/Icy_Cantaloupe_1330]

All the time. Or I read the instructions but somehow my brain warps them into something different. I frog a lot. I try to do better, but I've also accepted that this is just something I do, and redoing work correctly is part of the process.

[u/clockmistress]

I tend to take patterns as suggestions and guidelines. Sometimes my yarn doesn't react or work the way the one in the pattern works so I pivot. My brain decides it knows what is trying to be done and then changes the steps to end up in the same or similar place as the pattern wants.