This is rapidly approaching the point where it could actually be considered nearly done.  It's not quite there yet, but the second sock is about 75% done, so we're getting close. It really does knit quickly...when I sit down and actually work on it.  That is, every time I manage to have a bit of knitting time, I'm surprised by what I've accomplished.  I just don't seem to find much time to actually sit and knit lately (you see, there's this other book that's about to come out, and it's taking all of my time). This will likely be the [...]

I distinctly recall thinking that this sock was going quickly.  I spent the whole first sock thinking how it was just clicking along at record speed and would be done in no time.  This is not holding true for sock two. Now, it is certainly taller than it was.  I'm part way through the heel flap and have every reason to suspect it will be finished at some point in the reasonably near future.  But it is not astonishing me with its blazing speed. If one of you could please have stern words with it about catching up with its [...]

I feel a crushing need to start this post with a shameless riff on the opening of Pride and Prejudice, but I'm trying to suppress my baser instincts.  We'll just leave it that I am most definitely in want of the mate to this sock. That's Pediboo Sport by Frog Tree, and I'm delighted with how it worked up.  I'll be writing the pattern for these down before I knit the second one and will likely be calling for testers for it in the next week or two (If you're itching to test, there's information over here on how to [...]

The sock is growing.  It's firmly in the 'I am clearly a sock and am recognizable as such to non knitters' stage of the process, which I always find reassuring.  But I've let it sit, unattended, for a few days now, and it has completely and totally failed to finish itself. I think I'll give it another day or two and see if there is any spontaneous knitting.  I wouldn't want to give up on the experiment too soon.  If we could make that work, it would be rather nifty. If that doesn't work out, I'm sure one or two [...]

Hey, that looks familiar.  That looks rather like a sock. Do you have any idea how long it's been since I knit a sock?  The last pair were Amenable and I finished them at the end of January.  That's almost six months ago.  That's not really cool at all. These are going smoothly (almost as if the sock gods were trying to tempt me back to their cause).  I had one little 'wrong needles' incident where I had to rip out a false start, but even that didn't feel terribly traumatic.  These actually seem to be going rather quickly.  I [...]

You know those conversations you sometimes have with yourself as you're knitting?  The ones that point out that you're using the wrong size needle, or that you really should be twisting that column, or that your cast on is a bit wobbly?  The ones that you really should listen to sooner, rather than later?  Because if you're going to rip something out anyways, better to just go ahead and do it now rather than waiting till you've put even more time into it. Mmmmm.  Yes.  I was having one of those conversations pretty much the whole way through the start [...]