Changing My Ideas…

…about what needs to be, and how I need to do things, how things need to turn out, and what that has to do with knitting.

I took knitting with me on the trip to Philadelphia where we had great weather, great visiting, and a great time.

I worked on the socks of alpaca for Wonderful Guy using the ‘campfire socks’ pattern, loosely adapting it for the loops of magickness. I knitted two dishclothes for Eldest Daughter and the Boy-o, as is my wont. I worked on another item, that which cannot be named.

So this story is about the sox of alpaca. I clipped right along on the cuff and the leg, then forgot to slip stitches on the heel. Whatever. How important can that be?

I turned the heel, shaped the gussets, and tried them on Wonderful guy. Oops. Too small to fit over his heel. Okay. These will be mine, and I will make his with more stitches and a looser cast on.

Continuing on, I start on the foot, and knit a while. I tried the sock on me. Remember I am adapting to the loops of magickness. I had too many rows on the heel flap, too many stitches picked up in the gussets, and that part was just way too big.

What to do? Continue and think it is going to work because I have so much time in it?

Who am I kidding? That would be a waste of resources, time, yarn, and more time, because I spun this yarn. I wouldn’t wear these wonderful soft sox, like that, and could I, in all consciousness make a second, poorly fitting sock, like the first? I would have to, because I surely wouldn’t wear mismatched sox.

This is a question for the ages for me. I was raised to not waste time. And frogging seems to waste all the time put into the knitting of an object.

And yet…

Now I have reached the conclusion that while my knitting does not have to be perfect, thankfully, because it never, ever, ever, ever, never hardly ever is, it does have to be workable. Un-workable is the biggest waste of time of all.

The sock she has been frogged. She has been frogged, and she has been re-cast on already. AND I am not really following the pattern. Oh yes! I am making up my own sock pattern. Maybe I will even write it down and share my own pattern of magic loopiness!