{"id":918,"date":"2006-06-10T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2006-06-10T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T23:24:00","slug":"rtfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"RTFP!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that didn’t go as expected.
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\nSo my mom’s having foot issues, and I thought I’d make her some socks for her birthday. Even if they don’t turn out so well, like the knitted equivalent of a kindergartener’s macaroni duck, she’s my mom and it’s the thought that counts. With Jayne hat orders back on the rise, I don’t know if I’ll have time to do these, but I’d like to at least give it a shot!<\/p>\n

I thought the Koigu on the top would be the best color choice for her. Most of y’all liked it best, too! I don’t really get to flex my knitting muscles making the same Jayne hat over and over. So I wanted to try some new things. I decided that because I had a feeling I might fall prey to “second sock syndrome” and not want to knit the second one, I’d try knitting two at the same time. I’d do it on two circular needles, because while I hated the magic loop method, I’d never tried two circs before. I also decided to try a new cast-on, namely Judy Becker’s “Magic Cast-On for Toe-Up Socks” from Knitty.<\/a> I picked out this pattern<\/a>, “Straight-Laced Socks” from Knitty. I can do lace, no problem. (Color in the left-hand pic is true, by the way.)
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\nWell, this was a lot to try for the first time, so I left my incredibly noisy house and went to Starbucks to give it a go. The cast-on worked great! I was doing wonderfully on two circs, too, which I can already tell is going to be my new favorite method. It did seem weird, though, that you’d have a k2p2 ribbing over the toes. Usually that’s just straight stockinette, nice and smooth. And it did seem like a lot of stitches to have for a toe – I mean, 60 stitches? Mom’s got wide feet, but that’s a little much. Maybe the ribbing makes it stretch? And I wonder if this is too loose a fabric on size 3 needles. I really should have done a gauge swatch first, but I just was so keen to start!<\/p>\n

So I wandered over to Charlotte Yarn<\/a> to get some advice on the width and density of the toe. was working there, and I had seen her at last Wednesday’s stitch ‘n’ bitch working on a sock on two circs (which is what put the bug in me in the first place) so I asked her opinion.<\/p>\n

And that’s when the merry peals of laughter started.<\/p>\n

What one word should I have read in the pattern? The very first freakin’ word before “Using one needle and a long tail cast-on” which I had chosen to ignore anyway?<\/p>\n

LEG<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, these were cuff-down socks, not toe-up. So I had effectively cast-on right across the leg hole, closing it up. And no wonder the toe was so wide, it was meant to go around the calf.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I have a good sense of the absurd, so through my embarrassment, I was laughing my keister off along with her. She was still cackling as I left the store. I’m going to get hell for this for a long time to come, I can tell.<\/p>\n

So tonight, I rip it out, and either start the same pattern again or find something new. I still haven’t decided.
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Jayne hat on the needles for Charlotte, then Australia and Pittsburgh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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