These are the silk socks from Simply Knitting Issue 43. Yes, they’re still going!
The first sock, now completed, has two mistakes in it. Well, okay, three if you count the fact that it’s at least two inches longer than my foot.
The second sock… well. Let’s just say that this little heap of curly unravelled silk is in a much better state now than it was as a knitted sock!
I made my first mistake on the cuff – I wasn’t paying attention, and two of the cables ended up twisting the wrong way. (This is the danger of knitting whilst watching tv. Sometimes the telly wins.)
I made the executive decision to ignore the cable error, and knitted all the way down the leg to the heel, where I made my second mistake. Or, more accurately, I knitted the heel exactly as per the pattern, and then discovered that the mistake was actually in the first sock. Oops.
I put the whole thing down for about a fortnight while I started work on a giant cardigan. I kept thinking that maybe the sock would be okay. Is it really so important for socks to be an identical pair? Would anybody care once they were hidden underneath a pair of shoes and trouser legs? The answer turned out to be, yes, I care, so I bit the bullet yesterday afternoon and unravelled the dratted thing.
Now I just need to remember the mistakes that I made in the first sock, and knit the second one to match it without making any more. Which is what I thought I was doing the first time!
Ah well. At least the miniature ball of unravelled wool is keeping me amused. Isn’t it cute?
nooooo! not evil cables! You were very brave to rip all that work out and start again…I ripped my hat out and won’t be going back!!
The sock is going to be a gift for the husband of a very good knitter, so I couldn’t let it go out with so many mistakes in it! Knitting it all back up again is a bit soul-destroying though.
Your hat looked alarmingly complicated, even without the addition of wine! 😉