Well, I decided that I didn’t like the yarn I was using when I started trying to (learn to) knit the baby socks on Sunday; it just wasn’t dainty enough, in my opinion, for a premie newborn little girl. As the nice lady at Yarn Central said, “You have to love the yarn.” So, I bought this ball of fine really really soft yarn that alternates between pink, blue, green, and purple pastels.
I restarted on Monday night. Of course, that took two tries. I did some weird miscount in the join and when I got around after the first row, I couldn’t figure out what had happened so I restarted.
Then last night I realized that somewhere somehow I had started working with the dangling tail rather than the strand going to the ball and I had to pull out about 8 stitches and that’s always a bad thing for me. It’s very difficult for me to pull out and get the old stitches back onto the needle. I was growing very frustrated. There came a point where I almost gave up and considered undoing it all and starting over again and then I thought about how daunting it would be if I was almost at the end of the sock and that happened or if it were a blanket or a sweater. I figured I better learn to fix it now. And, surprisingly, I did.
So I got in a few more rows before I went to bed. Hopefully this will get easier and take less time at some point. Admittedly, the roundy bits are scaring me…I mean, if I’m having this much trouble with just the cuff…
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