No new pictures lately, but these socks were cruising right along. Finished the first sock – foot fits great – leg not long enough, so I cut off the cast-on edge at the top, picked up all the live stitches, and added another inch or so. Woo hoo! Now that that's good, I started the second sock and had almost competely finished it…. when things went south.
I was more than halfway up the leg, and I started comparing the first and second socks to figure out when I needed to switch needle sizes (for calf shaping). I had been knitting the second sock with the first as a template – 7 pattern repeats on the foot, 8 on the leg. That was fine. Except the second sock was longer than the first. Oh #$^&! I've been knitting 8-row repeats instead of 6-row repeats! So that meant the foot was 14 rows longer on the second sock – that's not going to work.
After consultation with my knitting brain trust (Tammy & Kate), I determined that I was not going to settle for less than perfection after all the trouble these socks have given me!
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP! Back to the toe of the second sock. Blargity Blarg!
Yeah, sometime’s it really bites to do the right thing!
(You’ll be much happier once it’s fixed, though.)
Yeah part of me thought about telling you to go on and finish it, but I knew you’d never be happy with it in the long run.
ugh don’t you hate that!
Oh boy, what a bummer! It had to be done though.