Stoopid Socks

Packing has commenced... I have gotten lots of books in boxes and have been sorting papers, etc. Hoping to have all books, yarn, random desk stuff and my winter clothes boxed tomorrow. That will leave me the knick-knacks to box, and the kitchen to clean out (that will be packed last.) Will get there somehow...

Meanwhile, I have sorted the yarn that will be going in the car with me, the yarn that will be passenger side knitting while my friend drives and I started a new project (I gave up on finishitis. It left me. The Cable 8 top will be completed in Texas.)

So I started a toe up sock from the 'Socks from the Toe-Up book." I am working on a sport-weight sock, knit in Reynolds Soft Sea Wool. WIth the help of You-Tube, I findangled  Judy's Magic cast-on (it was a little rough at first but I got it going) and started knitting away. So I knitted and knitted following the chart (or at least, that's what I thought I was doing) and was creating the gusset for the heel while on the phone with my mother and said to her "You know mom, these socks don't look like the picture in the book." And she said to me- "did you read the chart right?" and I said "of course I read the chart right mom- I know how to read charts." Then I paused and re-read the pattern... and realized that the it was charted only for the odd rows and that the even rows were knit, and I was not doing that, and that is why the socks were looking so wrong.

Silence. Mom says "So did your read the chart right?" And I say "no. I screwed up. And I have six inches of sock knit." Then I said "Well I could just keep knitting with my screw up and make them like this." And she said "But you'll know, and it will always bother you. Pull them out."

So I yanked out the needles and frogged.

Now I am back at the toe, re-starting the pattern. Cursing the chart that does not show the even rows (although it is there in the notes- yes my own stupidity.)

Mom to her credit did not laugh at me. She let me get off the phone so I could curse and frog and re-read the pattern. Mom makes lots of socks- (only plain ones though, with no patterns) so she gets it.

So I will start the green sock again. And pack. And oh yes, I got a new haircut- I got bangs, which I have not had in twenty years, but people tell me I look cute- I think  they make me look young, but they do hide my huge forehead, so there is a plus.

Anyway- moral of the sock story. Double-check your chart.

Back to packing.

Comments

[cory]

Don't you hate that? You have inches and inches of sock and there's one small problem with it that will bug the crap out of you if you don't fix it. Sigh. I have lost many a sock to that problem.

[Jaime]

I do stuff like that. :( Like the first two pairs of 'Embossed Leaves' that I knit, which really turned out not to be. I was reading the pattern left to right, right to left and so on. Still pretty though. Unfortunately I didn't notice until giving them .. to another knitter. Ick. -The color you're using is great, like grass, very happy.

Did you cut your long hair or just get bangs? Bangs are awesome how they make you look younger. This time I only kept them about 8 months but they are *Fighting* me on growing right now.

Good luck on the packing!

[Rebekah]

I keep wanting to get bangs, but my husband does not like them, so I keep resisting the urge.

I hate it when patterns mess up like that, but then, if it was me, I would have kept knitting, because I'm terrible at frogging. But then, I wouldn't have been happy with them, never worn them, and ended up regretting making them.

Your way is much better.

Happy moving! Drive careful!