I am so my father's daughter.... he was extremely stubborn and so am I. I hate being bested by an inanimate object like a sock. I have casted on my first of the lace socks for the fourth time. So far so good... well not exactly good... more like ok.. I casted on the 84 stitches that I needed on my circular needles... halved them for Magic Looping and somehow wound up with 85 stitches. I decided to roll with it since once I got the first 1.5" of K1P1 ribbing done I would need to increase the number of stitches anyway so I just did 5 stitch increases instead of 6 and called it acceptable. So far the pattern seems to be shaping up ok since I'm only 5 rounds into the 6 round pattern as of this writing... and I have many more rounds to go before I get to the next section of rounds where I will need to decrease my stitches and get to the same spot that I was in on my 1st attempt at these socks before I wound up ripping out my work. I might need to start learning about how to use lifelines in my knitting so that I don't wind up ripping everything out if any other calamities come my way with these socks.
The picture above is from the Patons website for the Lace Socks http://www.patonsyarns.com/patternbook.php?PBS=500863. I really hope that I eventually get to the point where I get to wear them..
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