![Thanks to therapy and figuring out the ending of my book, we made a big change this year. I’m sharing the news with my Inner Circle later this month.
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I started sock number 2 and I took great care to cast-on at the end of a dark aqua stripe so that the stripes would line up well. The third cast on was the charm.
I continued to knit from the top down and got to the heel. That seemed like a good time to hold the socks up next to each other and admire my stripe alignment…..RAT ON A STICK! They weren’t aligned. Somehow, the stripes were off enough to make me crazy and not enough off to look intentional or cute. I was in a state of severe irritation. Surely, the cheap sock yarn was a huge mistake! What could they be thinking to make yarn that was off in such a way!
oh.
wait.
sigh.
I wound the first skein on the sock winder and then decided it was more trouble than it was worth so I didn’t wind the second skein.
Looks like I could not have been more wrong. I am hugely bothered by this. My crocheting/knitting friends assure me that no one other than me will notice and I should get over it; the socks are hand-knit.
I’m already strategizing my options:
A. rip it out – TH hard vetoed this idea.
B. make two more socks – one to match each of these.
C. get over it. As a matter of personal growth, I’m in the process of trying to go this route. We shall see.
Katherine the Great
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller. Mostly I tell stories about knitting.
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2010
i love them they way they are! they have character and this way they’re unique. i think they’re sort of quirky fun. DO NOT UNDO!
Make one more sock. It’ll match one of the two. Then you have your third as a spare when the sock gnomes steal one of them!
Oh, and btw, what bothers me more than the misalignment is that you did one forwards and the other backwards so that the small stripe in the grey is in different positions. That REALLY bugs me. But, I’m sure no one else will notice. You know, I shouldn’t have said anything. Just ignore me. Honestly, I’m sure they’ll be fine… ;)
I think they look perfectly fine the way they are… I wouldn’t have noticed had you not said … um, actually I still didn’t see it even though you did say sumpthin.
My hand-knit socks are some of my favorites! I have a self-pic on my blog – but you’ve probably seen that, since I follow you!