SockTart

Just a quick note before getting dressed, making breakfast, and going to work.

Knitting is damn good therapy.  I’m not going to go into details, but I really really needed some quality time with some sock yarn yesterday.  Also being determined to figure out this damned pattern doesn’t hurt.

I just finished repeat #5 of the pattern.  I put a makeshift lifeline in before the first repeat…then wound up not needing it.  I don’t pretend to understand why sometimes I can “get” a pattern and sometimes I can’t…but there you go.

One more repeat, likely at lunch hour, and then I’ll be on the much-vaunted heel-flap.  Having never done one of these before, it will be an adventure.

But yeah.  Monkey is becoming my bitch.

So I cast on my 64 stitches, and after knitting an inch of cuff, tried the pattern for monkey. I got about two rows into the pattern, then muffed up. Couldn’t knit back (of course). Even though the pattern is written for 16 stitch repeats, I wound up with 3 extra stitches on each side (back & front…using magic loop/2 circ methods instead of dpns). Now…math was never my strong point, but for cripes’ sake…why is it that when a pattern calls for k2tog, ssk, and yo, I muff it up?

This is starting to really tick me off. I couldn’t get Hedera working this way, either. The worst part? I had to rip back the whole inch worth of cuff. There goes an evening of work.

Piss me off. Not happy

Y’know…I’d like to do something *other* than plain, toe-up socks without any kind of pattern. Being able to do the same pattern as everyone else would actually be NICE. It seriously irks me that I just can’t seem to follow the herd…even when I try.

I’m going to pout now.