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The sad story of a sad sock

 The internet (and this blog) are littered with well fitting, marvellous garments, which we report were super easy and fun to knit and worked out perfectly. And one reason for this is - who wants to sit down and write a post about how their 259th sock was a complete fail.

What happened was - when we were on holidays in Warbutton I was finishing Leon's socks, and i didn't really have the time or energy to get together my next project - wind the yarn, get the right needles, consider a swatch and so on. So I grabbed some contrast yarn and decided to knit the Confetti socks, a paid sock pattern. this is the picture from the pattern: so pretty!



I cast on, and then discovered that those crosses are not cable crosses - they are this weird winding technique than requires a cable needle, and taking both hands off the needles. It was slow and painful.

I did already know that using a dark colour for the slipped stitches in these style of socks is a bad idea - it pulls the whole thing to muddiness. I had 40 grams of the dark colour, which should be plenty - I can make a whole pair of shorties out of that much, and yet if I keep knitting I'll run out.


It's also a bit tight at the bottom of the heel - I was originally doing the slipped stitches there too, until I stopped - not because I knew that would make it tight, but because the sole was someone shorter than the upper.

The pattern itself was indecipherable to me - I know how to do this style of heel, but I could not work out how from the instructions.

So - I have most of a rather ugly, slightly too tight sock, that I'm not going to be able to finish with the amount of yarn I have. I think that means I'm sending this to the frog pond. 

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