I am please to report that I have have conquered that darn sock! If you go back to previous posts, you will see that I have been working on a pair of socks for the dear husband. The first sock went smoothly...too smoothly.
Attempt #1: The second sock started strongly, and in my over confidence I took it to a meeting. Gigantic mistake! Never take knitting that requires thinking to a meeting. I was focusing on an interesting discusion and the next think I knew, instead of knitting on 4 needles, I was on 3....such sadness. The DH was very good about helping me frog the yarn (because it sounds like rip it, rip it, rip it) and rewinding the ball.
Attempt number 2: I cast back on and away I went, going strong, my confidence was returning. I got together with some gal pals and while we were waiting, one of my friends and I had a stitch n' bitch. Now, you would think I would have learned my lesson - but no. I was so close to putting my knitting down when disaster struck. I dropped a stitch. And in my attempt to be all cool and "look what a good knitter I am" I only succeeded in making a mess of things and dropping another stitch! Damn my ego. That's when I put the sock away for a month and a half. I was sure that I was going to have to frog the darn sock - AGAIN!
Fix #1: I finally had the courage to pick it up again, this time with my two handy reference books. I actually fixed my mistakes! Happiness! Joy! No frog sounds need apply...until...in my exuberance, I got ahead of myself and didn't reposition my stitches before turning the heal. Disaster...rib bit, rib bit here I come...the knitting got put away again...
Fix #2: After taking some time apart, I got out my trusty reference books again, and in my new one I found a trick for only frogging a few rows, by putting a needle through a lower row. This worked amazingly well! After frogging the two rows, repositioning the stitches and picking up a lost stitch or two (now I have it!) the rest went quite well. I am pleased to say that I finally finished the second sock!
The cruel irony: upon close inspection of the socks (which is what any knitter must do) I realized that the first sock, the one that went so smoothly- I see a bunch of mistakes. The second sock, that took 3 times as long and I thought was a disaster multiple times- looks better!
The anal retentive part of me is considering frogging the first sock and knitting it again so it can look better, but the part of me that has stared at the same patter since April thinks it's time to move on to a new project and a new skein of yarn.
Conclusion: pity the poor fool who has a love for needles and yarn...
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At least you have learned how to make socks...it will be a while yet before I can get the time to do it! Congrats to you! And now R has warm feet!
Have you attempted any beenies yet? Kris began an attempt at a beenie for me a few weeks back and was almost immediately confounded! Sadly, several of the knitting forums she has joined have been generally unhelpful...
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