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.

Reader, I frogged it. And not only was it frogged but I changed yarns completely. As no photos of exist of the sock that never was, this is fairly redundant information but bear with me.

New sock! The pattern is from a stitch dictionary and I’m pretty sure it must have been used for a sock patterns before I found it. If I can find a pattern I’ll link to it, else I may just write it up. It’s a very simple lace rib. No cabling involved; the wavy stitches are all done with cleverly placed yarn overs and knitting togethers.

I think in the blue-green colour and the ripples look like waves on the sea. Not a sparkling blue ocean, but a wintery sea at a British seaside resort. A few years ago it was a notable birthday for me (yes, I was 21 ) so Mr B took me to Brighton for the weekend as a treat. My birthday is in February. It snowed. But the socks remind me of the sea as seen from my hotel room window. This is A Good Thing.

The yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy, which is the best name for a yarn ever.

This progress is the result of an evening’s knitting; it took me three days to do as much with the other pattern. These socks are for keeps.

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