I saw these homeknit socks by Cassy over at Knit The Hell out a short while back - and thought they looked really cool and wanted to give them a go. I admit it's more about the yarn colors since Cassy admitted to me she knits so many socks that it sounds like she doesn't have a particular pattern to pass along for this specific pair.
I got the yarn and needles required, never having knit anything with sock yarn before, and then just admired the project up in my head, thinking sock yarn looked really intimidating. I mean, it's SOOOO skinny!
Then I decided to give 'em a go in late February, just before we drove up to my parents' in NY for my mom's and my shared bday week. While there I tried picking up the needles to continue working on the socks, when at some point I suddenly came up with the end of the yarn in my hand. Wait, what?
Turns out mom and dad's cat Maggie May decided to chew through the yarn while I was working on the socks! NOOOO! I wove together the two chewed-through ends and kept going.
Only the further along I got (only a couple inches along the foot from the toe-end), I realized I was making them WAY too big. While I like that for my heavy duty "oversocks" with worsted weight yarn, these sock-weight guys were going to need to be a better fit.
I got fed up with them. Annnnd I ripped them out, balling up the yarn and figuring I'd start over sometime soon. Well, I've just finished two other projects I was working on, and figured, eh, time to try taking on something for me again.
So - let's get these socks started... AGAIN! Fingers crossed I get it right this time around!
I got the yarn and needles required, never having knit anything with sock yarn before, and then just admired the project up in my head, thinking sock yarn looked really intimidating. I mean, it's SOOOO skinny!
Then I decided to give 'em a go in late February, just before we drove up to my parents' in NY for my mom's and my shared bday week. While there I tried picking up the needles to continue working on the socks, when at some point I suddenly came up with the end of the yarn in my hand. Wait, what?
Turns out mom and dad's cat Maggie May decided to chew through the yarn while I was working on the socks! NOOOO! I wove together the two chewed-through ends and kept going.
Only the further along I got (only a couple inches along the foot from the toe-end), I realized I was making them WAY too big. While I like that for my heavy duty "oversocks" with worsted weight yarn, these sock-weight guys were going to need to be a better fit.
I got fed up with them. Annnnd I ripped them out, balling up the yarn and figuring I'd start over sometime soon. Well, I've just finished two other projects I was working on, and figured, eh, time to try taking on something for me again.
So - let's get these socks started... AGAIN! Fingers crossed I get it right this time around!
1 comment:
oooooooh, pretty yarn!
I have had to put several of my projects in the time-out corner in the past; they refused to be knit and I got tired of fighting with them. when they DID come out of the corner, they were on their best behavior!
my meredith kitty has split my yarn like that; such sharp teeth she has! you just carry on.
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