My needle bending incident yesterday was partly due to me taking arty photos in an attempt to persuade myself that the sock I was knitting was worth continuing. It wasn’t a hard pattern, but I couldn’t memorise it and it was bothering me knowing that I was two thirds through the first sock and already dreading knitting the next one. I want to be able to pick a sock up at odd moments, glance at the sock and know which pattern row I’m on. Considering that I’m planning to knit a Princess Shawl which I doubt is going to be at all suitable for picking up at odd moments, this might seem a contradiction. But with a shawl – especially that one! – I’m not knitting it as a quick and portable project. A sock, on the other hand, is for knitting on the bus or tram (if I can get a seat!) as well as in odd snatched moments when I’m not trying to launch a website, and therefore I can’t be doing with balancing charts and crossing off rows.
Click below to see what happened next. Unless you are a certain wizardy yarn dyer who doesn’t want to spoil a surprise. 
