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A weekend of knitting frustration

This should have been the perfect weekend for knitting - snowy weather, near-zero temperatures, sick kids requiring my presence at home, football on TV - alas, the knitting yielded only frustration.

As I indicated in my previous post, the Sockotta really deserves a smaller set of needles so the sock I started will be ripped out and I'll have to get to a yarn store to get the right size needles. So I pulled out one of the 'Socka Colori' yarns to make another pair of "crazy socks".

This time, I wanted to try adding a 4x1 rib to the entire body of the sock to make it fit better, but I was concerned about what that would do to the fair-isle patterning that's built into the yarn. You have to have precise gauge to get the fair-isle pattern - so I loosened up the tension on the fair-isle rows, and then they looked very odd next to the stripes knit up with tighter tension. And the rib does wreck the fair-isle patterning. Anyway, I was knitting the yarn on needles that were perhaps too small. Another frustration - I don't remember what size needles I used on the previous pair of socks I made using this yarn. That was in my pre-blogging days - now I'm more meticulous about making a record of that kind of thing.

I also wanted to try a short-row heel instead of a heel flap. That part went OK, so at least I learned something new. But I think I'm going to rip out the sock and start over - on size 2 needles, and without the rib.

So an entire weekend spent knitting - and nothing to show for it. Still, frustrating knitting is better than no knitting, am I right?

The good news: only one of the kids has the actual "flu" - as in "influenza" - two have just colds, and the fourth is not sick at all (knock on wood.) The flu kid is still home today but the worst is behind him.

Comments

OMG you have had a frustrating weekend! The good news is; it can only get better from here right? So glad to hear the kid(s) are on the mend...and from one knitter to another;I believe that you should treat yourself to a trip to the yarn shop to stock your needle supply for sock making :-)

Posted by: lisa at November 24, 2003 04:40 PM