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durham_knits at 11:20am on 20/06/2009
durham_knits at 11:20am on 20/06/2009Normally, if I have to frog a project more than twice, I just give up. Sometimes, however, there is something that I want to knit SO badly that I'll keep on plugging away, no matter how frustrated it makes me. I'm working on a pair of socks that I desperately, truly want to wear - they are AWESOME - but I think I'm being conspired against!
Enter the sock. I'm testing a pattern that a friend is writing with a brilliant, innovative construction. I am now on my FIFTH start to it - and not because the pattern is badly written. I simply seem unable to follow directions! First, I read it wrong and knitted a section in the wrong pattern. Frogged. Then, I had a clumsy cast on that made the heel flap look odd. Frogged. Then, after getting halfway through the pattern, I realized that the sock was SO BIG because I'm too stupid to read a gauge swatch correctly that even my husband's size 12/13 feet had extra space in the ankles. Frogged. Down a needle size, which I had to go out and purchase, as I didn't have an double pointed size 0s. And to top it all off, just to show that the universe is out to eat the sock... one of my double pointed needles snapped in the middle of knitting. I had to exchange the whole package which meant... removing the needles so I could exchange them. While I was gone, a cat decided to drag the orphaned knitting around the room. Frogged.
I am going to take today off from knitting this sock. If I don't, I might stab someone with my (thankfully replaced) double pointed size 0 needles. And man, those things are tiny and pointy. They'd hurt.
Enter the sock. I'm testing a pattern that a friend is writing with a brilliant, innovative construction. I am now on my FIFTH start to it - and not because the pattern is badly written. I simply seem unable to follow directions! First, I read it wrong and knitted a section in the wrong pattern. Frogged. Then, I had a clumsy cast on that made the heel flap look odd. Frogged. Then, after getting halfway through the pattern, I realized that the sock was SO BIG because I'm too stupid to read a gauge swatch correctly that even my husband's size 12/13 feet had extra space in the ankles. Frogged. Down a needle size, which I had to go out and purchase, as I didn't have an double pointed size 0s. And to top it all off, just to show that the universe is out to eat the sock... one of my double pointed needles snapped in the middle of knitting. I had to exchange the whole package which meant... removing the needles so I could exchange them. While I was gone, a cat decided to drag the orphaned knitting around the room. Frogged.
I am going to take today off from knitting this sock. If I don't, I might stab someone with my (thankfully replaced) double pointed size 0 needles. And man, those things are tiny and pointy. They'd hurt.
aggravated