I love knitting. I don’t try
to hide it. I have a yarn shop, it’s obvious. One thing that is not really
obvious is my ability curse to start new projects all the time.
What could be wrong with
that? I hear you ask. Well starting new projects isn’t really the problem. It’s
not knowing exactly how many projects I have at any one moment, but knowing it
way more then 5.
I use the same reason every
time, ‘it’s a sample for the shop, I have to make it’. That is hardly ever
true. I do knit samples for the shop and that is the majority of my knitting
since opening two years ago, however the sock I cast on the other night is not
even a sample. It’s just a sock.
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| Cast on - toe up |
It’s not a special sock. I
won’t have any fancy stitches. I will be stocking stitch all the way, with a
rib cuff. The yarn is a variegated yarn so it will still look interesting. But
it is, and will always be, just a sock. I will, of course, make a pair of ‘just
socks’.
This all started because I have
begun to look through all my craft bits and bobs in my house. It’s an attempt
to give my husband some sort of office that is free from yarn-mountains. It was
getting to the point that if you moved anything, something else would fall down
from somewhere!
I brought bags and baskets
of yarn, patterns, needles and other stuff down into the living room. I emptied
them and sorted the yarn into different weights and put the patterns together.
Other stuff and needles got put into another basket to be sorted later. The
point is I came across a ball of sock yarn with one sock made and one at the
point of turning the heel. This could not be left!
I spent the next two
evenings finishing the sock, but there was still about half the ball left. I
couldn’t leave it. I couldn’t put it back in the basket with the other 4plys. I
had to finish the ball.
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| Finished Pair |
So I cast on for another
sock. May my other projects forgive me.
