Knitting Backwards
There has been no knitting here. Not a stitch. In fact, in a new feat of not-knitting I have managed not to merely fail to progress on the current socks, I’ve actually gone backwards. On both socks. Different pairs. It turns out that despite hoping really really hard, despite the power of my will and the streak of luck I was having by turning out a wearable first pair, that knitting without swatching, measuring OR pattern was not a very good idea. Especially as I was knitting each sock with a new-to-me yarn which had unpredictable gauge.
Oddly enough, I didn’t see it coming. The thicker yarn turned out short row toes that were wide and shallow. Perfect for a foot with seven stumpy toes. I tried to ignore it and knit on. But the flapping ears of the toe section on either side of my foot were a little distracting. That and the unlikelihood of ever getting a pair of shoes wide enough to accomodate my room-for-a-little-one style of sockiness.
The other sock was actually two at once on a Magic Loop. This idea sounded great. The possibility of no Second Sock to knit and the chance to do the same thing on each sock at the same time so I didn’t have to write notes and remember to repeat the instructions by not losing those notes – that was sooo tempting. But did it work? No. It turns out you need a really really long cable on your circs to do two at once. And I didn’t have that. It felt like I was knitting in a cupboard with my elbows tied to my sides. There was no slack on the cable to hold the needle comfortably, I was angling the knitting to allow stitches to move along to the points and knitting from both ends of the yarn cake (again, sounded like such a good idea) meant that I spent more time untangling my knitting than I did actually working on the socks! Such a shame because I’m loving the yarn (Sophie’s Toes sock yarn in Bouquet)
So I frogged them all. For the second time in a month.
I think I’ve lost my knitting mojo. If anyone finds it, could you send it back?
