Does everyone have projects they get stuck on? Things you are making or doing or writing or designing or whatever that never seem to progress?! For me it has been a pair of Jaywalker socks out of Austermann Step sock yarn in the Hunter colorway. These things will be positively stillborn by the time I'm finished with them. I bought the yarn about a year ago and held onto it for a while, kind of savoring the experience of knitting with this unique yarn...Finally cast on the socks in October '06, thinking it would be nice to feel yarn suffused with aloe and jojoba running through my fingers as the cold nights approached; they'd be done just in time for winter.
NOT! It's now mid-February ~~ winter is most definitely gripping us here in Northern New England! ~~ and these socks remain tenaciously undone. Granted, I've picked them up and put them down frequently over the months, completing any number of more or less complicated projects in the interim. But I always have lots of projects going and the Jaywalkers have a pretty straightforward pattern repeat that should have posed no special challenge. WRONG! I have knit, frogged, knit some more, tinked, knit some more, thrown fits, hidden the from myself, picked them back up, finished one, cast on the second, made you-can't-start-that-shawl-until-you-finish-the-Jaywalkers! deals with myself, and now, finishing the heel flap of sock #2, I see that I somehow dufus-ly knit only half as many heel flap rows as the pattern called for on sock #1! I thought it looked funny, but given the Jaywalker zigzag, I thought it would all stretch out in the wearing! WRONG AGAIN! So, when I finish sock #2 I will frog #1 back to the heel flap and fix that sucker! Why don't I just pitch them out my backdoor into the Mussel Ridge Channel as lobster food, you ask? I will not be de-feeted by these ridiculous pedal sheaths! This is either real stick-to-itive-ness or bull-headedness or just knitter's remorse on my part...Not sure what it says about my character...but I do know that these socks just better fit and wear perfectly, or else! Or else what, you ask...Or else...or else...um...or else I'll rip 'em out and fix em, I guess!
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