cry cry cry....I unraveled a weeks worth of knitting on one of my socks.
This pattern was a poor choice....it read ok but reality is, it requires too
much counting and concentration, at 4am. I've been amazed I made it as far as I
have with no unfixable errors or counting errors. Dummy forgot to keep putting
in lifelines every inch. I knew better with such a stressful pattern but got
cocky. Then I messed up my row count by marking at least one row done when I still had the sole stitches to go. There were big gaping holes due to loops not getting closed on the missing rows. I tried
to fudge but it was just ugly.
Since there aren't any plain rows, to save my life(or the sock), I couldn't
pick up the stitches to just below the problem area, though I tried. I had to
rip back several inches to the last lifeline.
Sock was bad so it is in timeout now and I am giving it
the silent treatment. BAD BAD SOCK!
I'm seriously thinking about cheating on it and casting on another sock
because I'm not happy with the other pair I am working on either (who knew pink
yarn could be evil????). The evil pink ones aren't hard(I've already finished
one) but it was to learn new techniques, the yarn has a mind of it's own and I am knitting with baseball bats(3.75mm).
I've already decided I don't like those new techniques. It was easier than
expected, looks fine, but oh so awkward...I would have never knit socks if I had
done this first...oh wait I did! then didn't try to knit socks again for 18
months. lol I have much more experience now so decided it was time to become
proficient in other methods(I have a list!). I disliked it so much though
I don't want to make the second one.
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