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).

Back to Reality

Yep we are HOME... and back to all the things that are home... and that includes my knitting projects..

I got an email this past week that a friend of mine will be at knitting group on the 27th to pick up the 9" squares that we have made for some charity knitting.. That was an "Oh Sugar" moment because I have been working on one (1) but with all my sock knitting I haven't been working on it... so after knitting group tonight I made the time and finished it. I even worked in all the ends too like she asked.. and then I contemplated my sock and it's pattern... which lately is throwing me for a loop lately.

I did really great on the first pattern part... 6 rounds/rows make the pattern and after 8 times of the pattern repeat I was finally at the 5.5" mark that I needed to be at so that I could start the second pattern part... this one has 12 rounds/rows that need to be repeated somehow.. here's what is getting me confused... the 1st round has a decrease in it as does the 7th round.. Do I go back to round 8 and do the repeats from there?? I looked ahead to the next section of the pattern and according to what I can figure out, I'm supposed to have 72 stitches (36 + 36 = 72 ) total and I already have that number of stitches on my needles.. and my work to this point needs to equal 10" or 25.5 cm . I'm only at 7" after doing the 12 rounds in the pattern. I'm thinking that there will be a trip to my local knitting shop in the morning to help me figure this out.

I can't wait to start trying to figure out the heel while doing Magic Loop... where did I put my white flag of surrender???

Here we go again

So I finished my socks... aren't they pretty???

I'm very proud of myself... so proud that I'm ready to make more..

This time I'm going to do them on Magic Loop which is a method of knitting socks and other objects on one circular needle. I have no clue how to do this and thankfully I have some good friends that will teach me. Also this time I am going to knit them in a pattern.. The pattern is rated as Easy so we'll see how well I do with it. There will be plenty of challenges though since they are Lace Socks.. that means plenty of knit together, purl together, slipped stitches and passing slipped stitch overs (PSSO) and yarn forwards.. I'm totally ready...