...in which your obedient servant strikes out on her own, only to get in trouble. Again.
I started a pair of child’s socks last night. No biggie, a small variation on the child’s sock pattern I always use. Except that I thought I could probably manage without checking things every two or three seconds. After all this is a simple pattern and I’ve made it a dozen times now. I did make a couple of changes, but nothing convoluted or difficult..
First, the yarn:
I wouldn’t exactly call these scraps, but they are fairly minute amounts. I’m a wicked chicken about even trying anything if I don’t know whether I have enough yarn to finish it. Practically, what that means is that if I don’t have two or three times the required amount, I won’t even start.
So this is new for me. The creamy tweed I actually do have a fair amount of. It’s that lovely orange-yellow contrast color I was uncertain about. I had hauled out a ball of bright fuchsia to do the heels and toes with but decided at the last minute that the sunshine colored stuff was a better match and would present a more harmonious appearance.
As it turns out, I’m going to have more than enough. In fact I’ll probably have just enough of that sunshine left over to not want to throw out - you know - but not enough to really do anything with? It will eventually travel to the bottom of my Dulaan bag, forgotten and unloved. They’ll have to bury it with me because the possibility of my throwing out a few yards of potentially useful color is non-existent :)
Anyway, I get started thinking baby cable - wouldn’t that look cool instead of regular ribbing? So that’s how I started. Only it didn’t look quite a cute as I thought. It’s not the fault of the stitch; it’s the yarn that’s the issue - the cable is small and the tweed obscures it. It’s not terrible, but it’s not wonderful either. So I do three twists and abandon the cable for regular, run-of-the-mill 2x2 ribbing.
Nine o’clock approaches and it’s time for Supernatural. Have you seen this? It’s about two brothers who chase after supernatural events and try to solve the attendant problems. Their mother died a horrible, supernaturally related death and their father is missing. Eh, the premise is only so-so, but the tales are enthusiastically told and the brother are possibly the most gorgeous young men on television. Oh mommy!
Well, you can see where this is going, right? I can apparently turn a heel or watch Supernatural - but not both :) I had turned the sock inside-out to attach the contrast color which I attached to the right side of the sock and then proceeded to do the heel flap and heel and first few rows of the gusset decrease. Inside-out. If the cuff had just been simple ribbing it wouldn’t have mattered as the fabric would have been reversible. But no, I had to go playing around with things and throw in a little cable :)
Oh well….
This was the final result, as of about two this morning. I just couldn’t risk putting the thing down and chance having it think it had defeated me :) Stubborn, eh?
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Stubborn is GOOD! Serves you well in so many places in life, knitting included :-)
You’ve got more stamina than I, lady. :) Thanks for posting the sock pattern link. I may use it for the (hopefully) last of the parrot yarn to match the hat.
I can not knit during Supernatural either. Either the hunkiness or the spookiness kicks in and I can’t concentrate!!
Hmmm the before shot of the yarn made me think of country vanilla and peach ice cream. yum
Yummy too are the boys of Supernatural though I missed last night’s episode searching for Olympicness on my tv. I can’t get the local NBC affiliate on my satellite so there are just dribs and drabs of the O. :-(
Yay, you showed that sock just who is the boss of her knitting!
Kathy - I absolutely agree and the knitting can’t talk back and make me feel guilty!
Toni - It’s a great little pattern, very simple and straight-forward. It’s written for two circulars, but I just go ahead and use my four needles :)
Kim - Comrade! Heheh…I’ll be more careful next time :)
Aarlene - Oh you had to mention peach ice cream! The owner of a bookstore where I once worked brought in a batch of home-made peach ice cream one day in the summer. Oh man…I almost had to go eat it in private! That remains one of my favorite taste memories.
Color me “wicked chicken,” too. In fact, I have to confess that recently I started a spontaneous, design-on-the-fly striped baby sweater but I didn’t think I had enough leftover balls of Cascade 220 to make the number of stripes I needed so I knit another project entirely, with new yarns, specifically to generate more leftover balls.
Try to top that! :-)
Stubborn? Maybe.
But talented, too!
And I TOTALLY respect that you watched your show AND knit until you finished the sock.
How does it look on a leg? I’ll bet it looks better than all “naked”.
Stubborn,good - giving in, bad! Now to make a pair…
Ryan - I couldn’t begin to top that and wouldn’t even try :) But what a great <strike>excusr</strike> reason to get more yarn!
Laurie - It looks pretty good. Despite the fact that the cuff bells out a little from the leg, when it’s actually being worn, the cable and the ribbing even out in “stretchiness” and it looks fine.
Nat - can be extremely stubborn but it happens so seldom that everybody’s always surprised. I just pick my battle carefully :)
Second sock on the way!
Have you seen this?
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=80205.0
Laura - Thanks for the link :) Heheh - have crap, will knit!
What an adorable sock. I love the creamy color. I think I might have to make a few pairs of those socks.
Why thank you Maureen :) It’s a wonderful little pattern upon which endless variations could be perpetrated. Doesn’t take any time either.
