February 13, 2006
Screeeeeeeeeech
Introducing... The PUCK UP Socks
And here is where I plan on wearing them!
Yes so the Jaywalkers... we have had quite the relationship recently . I left it to the last second like the assinine procrastinator I am so you know I was thumbing for it. And by deserving it, I mean thank the gods for timezone differences otherwise I'd be out in the cold. Please forgive the lack of photos cause really, I am tired. It is almost 2am and I have to go to work in 6 hours. I am insane... I know- all this for yarn I won't win. God help me!
First I got thorugh the heel and gusset only to realise there was a one stitch fuck up all the way back up the leg. So unknit I did.
After that I go through the gusset and was working on the foot and noticed... well now one of these socks looks longer than the other. I will be at one and Zen with the fucking socks! Cause otherwise there is no way I am finishing these. And if I don't finish them by the deadline I might just give them up!
So the Jaywalkers, and the contest have tested my patience and perfectionist tendancies. I am calling them PUCK UP for all the screw ups I have made over them on sock #2. (one of which I admit I may just go back and fix)
Maybe I will knit another pair... but for a knumbknuckle like slappy over here, it ain't going to be till a while off I am guessing. Shedir is next to be flung around and talked to dirty.
Sophie de Grouch will be content with this pair! Everyone have a nice and happy Vday card on me ;)
Posted by Stinkerbell at February 13, 2006 08:28 PM | TrackBackI'm not getting my JWs done in time for the yarn that I wouldn't win anyway. And yep. I've made a buttload of mistakes on them. But I also promised my daughter that I was giving her these socks the next time I see her so I can't go back and back and back and.... no. No more.
At least Shedir is just a hat. I had forgotten what pattern it was and from the photos I was thinking it was a SWEATER. (making myself laugh) With the cable crap you've been through already on Shedir I was thinking "she really is torturing herself by making this sweater!" heh
Posted by: Laura at February 14, 2006 01:48 PM
Just in the nick of time. At least you persevered. Nice work!
You should get a medal for hanging in there with those jaywalkers......the FO pair is perfection, however. You will love them, as soon as you forget how hard they fought you.........
Posted by: christine at February 14, 2006 08:20 PMSeriously, you must give yourself credit for seeing the project to the very end - thru all the sock re-dos etc. And, staying on course w. all other knitting projects taunting you - me? Probably would have been easily swayed by something new to knit... Great Jaywalkers!
Posted by: Terry at February 17, 2006 07:31 PMI know next to nothing about knitting so all I can say is an uneducated YAY!
Posted by: Chris at February 18, 2006 01:21 AM