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Hooray!  I finally found a pattern that looks good with this yarn. It's still pooling afer I switched to smaller needles for the ankle, but I just don't care anymore. 

Okay, for those of you who weren't at Simply fibers last Sunday to witness me throwing a royal hissy over yarn pooling, of all things…. 

I have this big plan to knit up a bunch of my sock yarn in advance of The Loopy Ewe Spring Fling that I'm going to in April.  I have all this really pretty brown and dark green yarn that I have earmarked for socks for my husband, so I figured I'd knit some of that.  So, I pull out the Colinette Jitterbug in Copper Beach colorway.  It's so pretty in the hank, and still super pretty would up into a ball.  THEN I STARTED KNITTING.   

I tried Monkeys, Jaywalkers, Child's First Sock (all slightly modified to avoid YOs)…. and they were all pooling like crazy.  at one point, I literally threw my needles across the table and pulled my coat over my head.  I'm not sure why I was so upset, but I could only chalk it up to a residual case of "Sunday dread."  That's what I call that black cloud that descends on Sunday afternoons when you would rather do anything than go to your job on Monday morning.  It's really bad, because it ruins the time off that you do have!  Anyway, I have a new job now so I really don't have any reason for Sunday dread.  But I think I was getting that feeling for so long that it still happens sometimes by instinct.  

Anyway…. (back to the subject at hand) that black cloud was really killing my knitting mojo.  Later in the week, I restarted – new pattern and top-down instead of toe-up – and it finally worked.  There is still a little pooling – I'm further along now than that picture shows – but I'm okay with it.  

Whew!  No more Sunday dread, PLEASE! 

I'm going back to Simply Fibers today (open every Sunday in February, yay!) so hopefully I can redeem myself with some more appropriate behavior.  =)