The socks I am knitting are Skew (Rav link) from Knitty, Winter 2009. The pattern was just released this week. Never before have I knit a project so soon after it was published. And this one is going to be a viral knit for sure. The construction is unique. I can't wait to see how it actually works.
I chose my yarn after the kids went to bed tonight, no earlier than 9pm. Already I am so far behind. There was no swatching and I've never used this yarn (Unwind Yarns (a Canadian company, how appropriate) Shiraz in Wicked Raspberry) before; a recipe for disaster, as most knitters know. I only had to cast on twice before I got it right and have been happily knitting along for a couple of hours when I realize that I totally screwed up. I missed the instruction to repeat two rows 8 more times, increasing the toe to 48 stitches. I only had 16 stitches when I moved to the next section. So now I have to rip it back and start all over again. Here's what it looked like before frogging. Notice it's just about an inch high, but it represents a couple hours of knitting.
Here it is post frogging. What a sad little pile of yarn.
3 comments:
You can do it!!
You're not alone in your insanity! I picked this pattern for the Knitting Olympics, too, without ever having knit a sock toe-up before. I think I started and frogged it at least five times between Saturday and Sunday before figuring out a. how to start a toe-up sock and b. that there was an error in Row 3 in the pattern I'd printed out on Friday (that has since been corrected). Now I'm on a roll...until the next issue, that is. :)
Good luck with your socks and hooray for knitting insanity!
Go for it!
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