![Confession Time with Katie:
Playing Mario Kart has made me a worse driver. As I drove to lunch with a friend, I wished for a flashing star so I could be invincible and drive through everything.
Also, we're eating bagels for lunch because throwing rules out windows is my new favorite hobby.
Speaking of hobbies, I started a Constellate Hat in the colorway, African Violets by LolaBean Yarn. The first Constellate took me nineteen months so surely i can beat that!
LOL. @marz1pan thought I was knitting a sock for someone with HUGE calves!
In writing news, I plan to send a short story before mid-December so join my Inner Circle Email List if you need a dopamine hit right about now.
I hope you have the Monday you need, Crew! I love you!!!!
[ID: Veggie rosemary bagel and tuna salad sesame seed bagel with a purple hat in progress.]
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First, I really enjoy dropping stitches. It’s the same feeling I used to get when a teacher would suddenly announce that a test was open-book. Legal cheating?!? wheeee!!! So, I’m on my just dropped some stitches high, and I’m knitting along and the pattern says to knit the heel flap. About halfway through the heel flap, I realize that the stockinette fabric is thin. Too thin for a heel – these will be worn out in no time and since they’re a gift, that simply will not do.
Now, I’m, at the very least, an intermediate sock knitter, so I get a little smug and rip back the heel flap, I read a little bit of the The Knitter’s Book of Socks and begin again with a lovely slip stitch flap. I finish that up, admire my handy work and then go back to the pattern to see what she has planned next…
…only to realize that the pattern ACTUALLY says that I should have done a slip stitch heel to begin with. Nice. At this point, I realize that I have two pattern reading modes:
– Test and complex knitting mode, where I read every comma, every word, every stitch.
– and evidently pattern scan mode where I assume I know what it says. In case you’re wondering, this is not the most efficient way to knit.
Mine raveled here
Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis and Small Things Yarn Along (I’m listening to/reading “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive” audio book – so far, I give it a 6.5/10).
Tags: Claire de Lune, Dizzy Lettuce, knit, lichen, Night of the Living Socks, sock yarn, Walking Dead, WIP Wednesday
An intermediate?
Please.
In my book…total perfection. You should give yourself more credit. You’re the bomb diggity.
I was trying to be humble. Get it? :)
I have no room to judge since I’m guilty of the same thing. The socks are looking great!
Thanks!
You enjoy dropping stitches?!?! That’s crazy talk. :-D I’m totally guilty of being a pattern scanner. I do it more than I care to admit.
I’m starting to feel like I might be alone in my dropping stitches love.
Heels amaze me. I’ve barely got the short row heel covered haha. Looks great and I’ve definitely scanned a pattern before only go whoopsie later on haha.
I just follow the patterns. I’m not sure I know what the names of each heel type are.
Yeah, I need to work on my pattern reading skills. Just about the time I start feeling like “I got this”, I make a huge blunder and have to start over. Thanks for reading and sharing.
I think as soon as we think “I got this.”, we’re definitely doomed.
Funny! I’m sure everyone can relate to this post. Like the colors of your sock!
Thanks! The Lichen colorway is very pretty.