Because it relaxes me #2

So... apparently, when you relax into the rhythm of knitting, you make bigger, looser stitches... which means that even if you have the same number of stitches on the needle, you end up with more width in the stitches you do cast on. I have 3 more inches of width in this sweater than I'd planned, and I'm almost halfway done with the sweater.

Cry.

Chocolate. I require chocolate, and I am thinking of building up that alcohol tolerance.

Elizabeth Zimmerman says it's not a mistake if you know what you did wrong (i.e. failed to check stitches per inch compulsively, every two inches). It's a learning experience.

I find it more likely that it's a test of patience from the knitting goddess. Are there knitting demons?

Paraphrasing Frank Habit:

So a husband says to his wife, "Why are you knitting?"
The wife, buried under stacks of yarn, knitting unravelled, tearing her hair out, screams back, "BECAUSE IT RELAXES ME!"