Woman vs. Sock……Sock wins
Whatever made me think I could knit? If the monstrous Sheep Jumper wasn’t bad enough, I have now been cursed by the Sock Gods, and rendered incapable of fashioning a toe up sock that fits my toes.
Thank you, no, my feet are not particularly deformed. But I can think of no other reason why I have now knit this sock SIX flaming times! SIX!
Up until now, I have successfully knit five socks (that’s five separate socks, not five pairs. You’ll notice that’s an odd number. Best not to speak of it) using three different yarns and three different toe-up techniques – I’ve managed short row toes, a weird version of short row toes (I forgot what I was doing but it fitted fine so I carried on. If I wasn’t such a complete dimwit I’d have written it down) and I’ve used the Round Toe from Sensational Knitted socks. All of which have been fine! Perfect!
This time I am knitting the Easy Toe (pah!) from SKS and using Posh Yarn’s Lucia in what I think is their cover colourway? It was the last of my Sock Club arrivals and I love it to distraction. I’m seriously adoring it, despite the tears and the whole how-many-more-bloody-times toe thing, I can’t keep my hands off this yarn. Look, isn’t it just lovelylicious? (I can’t seem to get the colours right on my photos today, the yarn is really a meltingly gorgeous blend of cherry pinks, lime green and other hints of other colours. It is scrumptious)
The Anzac biscuits were (very, very briefly) delicious too. Then they were gone.
Perhaps I’m being punished for neglecting the twin of my Mint Julep sock:
I haven’t blocked it yet but it fits beautifully and I’ll need to finish the other one (okay, I need to cast on the other one!) and compare them as I knit, in the hope of getting a matched set. I made the lace stitch pattern by altering Oriel Lace and it is pretty ribby really, having a bit of stretch and looking pretty on my foot. I’m hoping I can find the envelope (I use the back of an envelope for everything) that I used to scribble down the pattern. These were knit from Posh Yarn Lucia too. I’m loving this yarn. Thank goodness I have a stash of it – I tell myself that I’m still a knitter (even if everything does turn out wrong) as long as I have yarn. “Of course I can knit socks! I have sock yarn!” – just like “Of course we’re not broke! I still have cheques!”
Actually, I’ve been a little distracted lately. We have news (I’m NOT pregnant) and I’m knitting for a new arrival. Or two (No! Definitely NOT pregnant). I may have finally found a use for the superscratchy my-first-homespun-twine yarn! Yay!
This was originally intended to be sock yarn but it is like the rough stuff they used to tie up brown paper parcels. I had hopes of it softening once swatched and washed but no. It’s a pot scubber and as much as I love the barberpole red, peach and eggyolk colous, I can’t bring myself to inflict it on anyone’s bare skin.
But now, I have a plan. It may involve double-pointed needles (my nemesis) and it may not be pretty. But after the The Sheep, how bad can it be?
