Wednesday, September 09, 2009

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!

I'm sure that lots of folks thought I was dumb or silly for starting my Christmas knitting in August. These people are either in denial or non-knitters (sometimes both).

In any case, I started my first pair of Christmas socks a couple of weeks ago. Good thing, because now that I'm transitioning to the heel, I found that while I was drinking beer and knitting among friends on Saturday, I totally effing effed this sock up. Stitch counts on this sock are completely crazy pants. All over the place. Nuts.

So, I'm glad that I started early because, in most cases, a mistake of this proportion would mean a store-bought gift for the recipient so that I might salvage a few extra grains of sanity during the holiday season.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree with you more. I also blogged about this a few weeks ago. You always need to have a trial project to work out all of the mistakes, then you have time to mass produce whatever you're making before Christmas.