I HATE knitting with black yarn

[ghost2]

I'm knitting a Torchwood scarf, black background with a red pattern. In more hours of knitting than I care to remember, I've finished maybe six inches of work and am currently unraveling a ridiculous amount of it in search of a mistake I haven't been able to find for almost three hours. Black is incredibly hard to work with. In fact, I feel like

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[lost_spook]

Sounds very frustrating!! Good luck with the new version, though. Changing sounds like the only sensible approach!

[ghost2]

It's going to take me ages to finish, but at least things are going better with the white yarn!

[ragnarok_08]

That sounds really frustrating :/

[ghost2]

It was awful. I decided the best thing was just to start over with the white yarn, and that's been easier to work with so far.

[nonelvis]

Dark yarn is so tricky; I've had similar problems with dark blue and purple before. It sucks that you had to frog everything, but hopefully the white and red scarf will be much less frustrating.

[ghost2]

This is the first time I've tried knitting with dark yarn to such an extent. Part of the problem is that I was double-knitting with black and red, putting a different design on the two sides of the scarf, so it was easy to screw up my stitch count and put the wrong color somewhere. I can see what I'm doing much better with the white yarn, thankfully.