Failed Sock

It's close to 10pm, I have a final in 12 and a half hours and I have yet to read 4 articles or review my notes. Am I studying? Nope, I'm blogging about my failed sock. The sock in question is the lacy mock cable sock that I have been knitting for two weeks, though I've probably only put 6 or 7 hours worth of work in to it. It was a rather quick knit. None of that matters though because the sock was a failure, and not just a single failure. No there are three glaring problems with this sock. To be fair though, two of them are my own fault.

Problem the first:

This is why I should never be allowed to graft. The whole concept of grafting eludes me. Not for lack of trying. I usually try three times, get frustrated and just end up doing a three needle bind off. Crude but effective. This was a sock of triumph though and I was set on properly grafting the toe, as you can see, I failed miserably. I have a feeling I'm going to attempt grafting every sock I make for the next 3 years until one day I just magically clicks and I will spend the rest of my life wonder why the hell I had so much trouble getting it. Kind of like my first attempt at roller blading.

Problem the Second: It's too small. At least a whole inch too small for my foot. The solution to both is to undo the grafting, rip the toe, knit another inch of pattern, then d the toe over again. It sound simple, but I hate picking up live stitches and the pattern prevents a lifeline from being added. So I have to decide it its worth it which brings us to problem the third.

It makes my ankle look fat. See that foot over there, that's my foot and normal its a very cute foot with a very nice ankle. This sock makes me look like I have Cankle. Not a good quality in a sock that I planned on wearing with ballet flats and thus would be visible. Tis quite the dilemma. I need help deciding what to do. Maybe I'll attapt the cable/lace pattern to a hat or scarf.

Socks and Ravelry

Partner recived her package, so I can known tell you about the coolest socks I've made to date. They are heavily modified version of Simply Ginny socks, which I lost the link to. You can't really tell in the picture jus theres a massive 10 stitch cable that goes down the centre of the sock. I knit them with Patons Kroy 4ply in the Paintbox colourway. Thres a big story about why this pattern and why that colour. Lets jsut say the theme was Harry Potter and leave it at that. I also made a sweater shaped ipod cozy, a coffee cup sleeve and a no sew double sided fleece blanket.

For another swap, I made a pair of Fetching (knitty summer 06 I think). I am a huge huge huge fan of this pattern. I will be making many a more fetching in the future. starting with a pair of my very own.The only mod I made was doing a regular bind off because lets face it, I'm a lazy knitter and I can't be bothered to do a picot bind off. Beside, it doesn't really change the look, and the picot flares out and I don't like that. (Ignore my hair looking arm. It's the flash. My arm hair doesn't look nearly that bad in natural light.) I used Vanna's Choice from Lion Brand. It made a nice dense fabric, and its machine wash an dryable, which is important to me for swaps. I want to send my partners somethin easy to care for. I have been known to make exceptions though when the yarn is pretty enough lol.

New topic! Christmas knitting! I have making a hat for my friend, and a hat/scarf set for one of my sisters, and two presents to myself. An Alpaca scarf in a chocolatey brown to go with my snazzy new red coat, and a pair of socks. I deserve a pair for myself damnit! lol. I keep giving them away. I may actually gice these ones away too though. I think my mom would like them alot. so who knows.

I have afew other projects on the go too, but I'm heistant to share because at least of of them is a swap spoiler. And while my partner is actually the orginizer thus is very busy, she also sent my package yesterday meaning shes finished and unlikely to actually read my blog between now and then. If she is, Hi Cindy! lol

If you're desperate to stalk my knitting, you can cause I am on Ravelry now! I've been having uber fun. I have pictures of a few of my favourite completed projects, some of my stash (I can't find all of it to photograph it) and all my WIPs.

Find me here:

http://www.ravelry.com/people/Michela

Swap spoilers though! So beware! Don't look if you don't want to know!

I'm off now. today we are putting up the tree, doing some cookie baking and I have about 20 journal articles to reader before Friday for a final and I have to learn aobut socio-lingistics for Tuesday. Wish me luck!