best laid plans

a tale of sock woe for you. i am probably the world's slowest sock knitter. i have been working on the same pair of socks since last july. it's not that the pattern is hard or that i don't enjoy knitting on it. i don't know what it is but unlike other sock knitters who take their socks everywhere and knit on them when they have a spare moment, i end up knitting on my socks only once every few months, which leads to slow socks. i finally finished a pair of socks this week out of some beautiful yarn from sunshine yarns. i was all excited and grafted the toe and even wove in all my ends. and then i tried them on.



you might not be able to tell from this picture but the sock on my right foot is waaay bigger than the first sock i finished (see how the heel looks all bunchy?). how this happened i do not know. i mean, i know gauge can change over time, but really? it's been less than a year and i am already making these socks on size 0s. what more do the knitting gods want? my first idea was to try to block the socks to see if i could get the one to be a little narrower and a little shorter. uh - that didn't work. in the depths of despair i thought that maybe i could give it someone with feet slighter bigger than mine. however, most of my friends have feet either way bigger than mine or the same size. i sat and stared at the sock for awhile before deciding that i would just have to rip back. so i found the end (that i had hidden so well) and frogged back to before the toe decreases. i laid the first sock under the too large one to see how far i would have to go back. so now the sock is back on the needles and i am starting the toe decreases again. i am trying to knit tightly and will be trying on the toe every few rows. even if it's still a little wide, hopefully at least the length will come out right this time. wish me luck.

oh - and did i tell you that i am off to stitches west next weekend? i couldn't resist the cheap air fares and the chance to hang out with my parents. i am SO excited.