I am almost finished my second sock. The sock knitting is proceeding at an acceptable speed, but I am having a few hitches. After completing the knitting on one of the socks and knitting to the end of the heel flap, I realized that I had completely misread the stitch pattern and had to rip out and reknit the first sock back to the heel shaping.
This is not good, because I did a similar thing on the last project I did from someone else’s pattern and had to rip that out too. I think I may be getting over-confident and need to regain some humility — humility is not really my strong suit, especially where knitting is concerned. I just figure I will figure it out and you can always rip it out and start again anyway (just don’t try this attitude with mohair).
That is really just a minor upset and a potential outcome of knitting ahead without reading through the whole pattern first — I run into the same problem with cooking and am used to dealing with it. If I minded it that much, I would change.
The real problem was that I wanted to carry my smaller purse and threw my socks and needles in my pocket. This was fine on the trip out, and I had a lovely time knitting in the coffee shop, but there was more of a problem coming back because I mustn’t have been careful enough putting on my seat belt and three needles broke in my pocket, so I haven’t been able to knit for the rest of the weekend.
I don’t think I will buy any fine needles in wood again. I have been knitting with bamboo for years and never had one break or split, and my first set of wood needles broke on my first pair of socks. The breakage was, I will admit, my fault, but one of them splintered a bit on the side before that, and that I don’t think I deserved.
