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miss_ytAfter doing so much work on my sock - knitting the leg part, making the heel flap and turn, then knitting up the gussets and going partway down the food - I discovered that I didn't have enough yarn left to complete it, or so I estimated, taking into account that I usually over-estimate the amount of yarn I have left. I tried to pick up stitches further up the leg part, but the ribbing confused me and I don't think I could have picked up the purled stitches correctly (meaning I would have dropped them a row compared to the knitted stitches). So for about the fourth time on this project, I will have to start again from square one.
Well, at least I've learned some valuable lessons - I know how to turn a sock heel and how to gusset in such a way that the stitches twist and don't leave holes. I also figured out the cause of some of the mistakes I made when I was working on the foot.
I'm kind of frustrated because I've been working so long on this project, but it's not the first time I've unravelled and restarted something, and I accept that my restarts are mostly due to my own lack of tolerance for making mistakes and overreaction to frustration. But for all my shortcomings, you can't say that I give up easily.
This time I will knit a 6-inch (not 10-inch) ankle part for the sock, which is what I should have done before. That will leave me enough yarn for the foot. Maybe I'll get it right this time.
Well, at least I've learned some valuable lessons - I know how to turn a sock heel and how to gusset in such a way that the stitches twist and don't leave holes. I also figured out the cause of some of the mistakes I made when I was working on the foot.
I'm kind of frustrated because I've been working so long on this project, but it's not the first time I've unravelled and restarted something, and I accept that my restarts are mostly due to my own lack of tolerance for making mistakes and overreaction to frustration. But for all my shortcomings, you can't say that I give up easily.
This time I will knit a 6-inch (not 10-inch) ankle part for the sock, which is what I should have done before. That will leave me enough yarn for the foot. Maybe I'll get it right this time.
