The Knitting Gods must be Crazy

Trying really hard not to tempt the Knitting Gods into making me slip up on the 2nd sock.

I've been really really careful on the 2nd sock so far. My only mistakes that I can tell are not doing a yarn forward once or twice (I think) and not having the correct number of stitches. Thankfully I have been remembering some very sage advice that I got from a friend that told me that I can sort of fudge things and pick up the yarn bridge between stitches to make a stitch if needed and hopefully noone will notice. A huge plus of knitting something that has a lace pattern is that there are supposed to be holes, so if an extra one pops up, it's not a huge problem.

I really am impressed with myself on this second sock so far. I haven't had to frog any of it. I'm currently past the point where I went majorly off track with the first sock and had to frog it 3 times before I got it right and had a completed sock. I think the biggest reason for the difference is that I actually have directions that are correct this time since I took the time to write out the directions for myself after going through the stress of incorrect pattern directions for the first sock and having to get them corrected quite a few times by friends and by going to the website for the pattern maker to look for corrections. Hopefully I'll soon have a complete pair of socks and then I can work on my next few projects. I still have 2 blankets on needles and want to start to make my nieces and my own girls a sweater each for Christmas. I need a really simple pattern for that. If anyone knows of one please let me know (sizes 3/4T - my girls , 6/8 - for D and 8/10 - for S).