It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17, 000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34, 000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense. . Stephanie PearlMcPhee
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The idea behind the shortening of the time is that when you make a mistake in knitting, you can fix it much faster than your deadline. You are able to fix the mistakes in the stitch much faster than your deadline.

Source: At Knits End: Meditations For Women Who Knit Too Much

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