Clearly a sock
Yes, more progress! No it's not done. Won't likely be done for another month at least. Because I'm lazy and shiftless I have lots of things competing for my time I'm taking my time and enjoying the process. Yeah, that's it. That's totally it.
Bite sized goals
I'll be over here giving myself the 'tiny steps add up' pep talk, mkay? We knitters are awfully good at that. Entire pairs of socks are tens of thousands of stitches. That's far too hard to think about. I will, instead, be thinking just about this next row here. Possibly about the ten rows that stand between me and the end of the leg. But I will be staunchly ignoring the idea of the whole sock.
Small steps
No, no the cabled socks are not done. The cabled socks likely won't be done until it does something drastic like start to snow. But there has been progress. And you know what, some days forward momentum is all you can really ask for. So we'll call it a win and celebrate it. And maybe, just maybe, we'll build on it tomorrow.
What’s the opposite of progress?
The sock grew and grew. It needs just about an inch more foot before it's time for the toe. But my motivation has, as expected, picked up and gone elsewhere. I've not actually knit a stitch on this in close to a week. The plan is to staple myself to the chair, put something entertaining on netflix, and trick myself into finishing it up this weekend. Feel free to harass me about it if you don't see more sock next week. Not too early though. Monday is a holiday, and I do not intend to come near the computer. And [...]
Tidy
The tidy socks of tidiness continue to be unreasonably satisfying. They've reached that 'looks properly like a sock' stage of things, which is always rather motivational. Oh and the other side will do something like this. Of course now I just have to motivate myself to put in the rows until things get interesting again at the toes, which is never my strong suit. Someone send bribes.
More Tricks
Somehow the nifty little magic trick swatch has gone and turned itself into nifty (if rather larger) magic trick socks. Or at least into the start of socks. Funny how that happens! Yarn is some Dirty Water Dye Works' Marie that I got on our trip back in 2013. it is going to make excellent socks. Now if one of you would just come bang out a few more inches for me while I go take a nap?
Oh this needs to happen
So it's about time I show you something I've knit. Except that I don't actually have anything I've knit to show, so I'll have to do something much much better and show you something Katie (who knits an astonishing number of the knitted things you see in my pattern photos) knit instead. These are the reincarnation of the gray socks I ripped out back in October. I wrote up the pattern, paired it up with some yarn (and oh if this isn't the perfect thing to do with a solid yarn I don't know what is) and now I have [...]
Kinked
Once I decided that the initial incarnation of the gray socks had to give way to a new version, the next step was to free the yarn. Now this is actually surprisingly hard for me. I loathe ripping. I always feel like I'm throwing away all that time I spent knitting. But in this case, there was absolutely no way I was ever going to use (or even finish) the socks, and the yarn was too pretty to waste. So out came the darning needle and the swift. I picked out my ends (why on earth am I so thorough [...]
Unearthed
A recent toss of the secondary knitting basket (don't look at me like that, I know some of you have them, too) revealed by far my oldest WIP. As far as I can tell, I put that down some time in the summer of 2011 and haven't touched it since. For those keeping score at home, that's one whole sock and pretty much the whole leg of another sock. That should, in theory, be the fastest path from me to a shiny new pair of socks. Alas, in this case, the theory doesn't quite hold true. The first sock truly [...]
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