I have this gorgeous skein of sock yarn from Woolcott (image snagged from the blog, saved to my server), but I apparently couldn't pick the right pattern for it.
I started off with a simple 60 stitch 2x2 rib, but then I decided I wanted a pattern. Bad idea. Apparently most of the sock patterns I liked would involve a special cast on, a different ribbing pattern, a completely different stitch count, or were for worsted weight or DK instead of sock yarn. Well, I solved that by ripping out the 2x2 rib and recasting on for the Mock Cable Socks.
I got halfway through the first repeat of the pattern and decided that I didn't like how it looked. I'm pretty sure that I should have been doing my M1 as purl stitches, and so I had these odd ridges where briefly there was some garter stitch. It's a very odd look over just one stitch in a sock. Last night while watching Moulin Rouge (well, listening... that movie is like very odd crack or something... especially Like a Virgin) I ripped it all out again and went back to flipping through 25 Favorite Socks, of which I'm really interested in about 10.
I started over and am about halfway through the initial ribbing on the cuff for a pair of Retro Rib socks. I feel like the last person in blogdom to have made a pair of these (almost: over 800 pairs on Ravelry). The only way I could feel more like the last person ever is if I were making the Embossed Leaves. That will happen as soon as I find an appropriate color/weight yarn in my stash certainly.
This is, of course, a long winded way of saying that I managed to knit last night. Not only did I manage to knit, I managed to knit on what I said I would knit on. If I keep this up, I might actually finish another project this month! [Or maybe not... there are only 9 days left to finish something!]
