One Row Forward…

Then rip it all back.

The Whisper Lace socks. Those beautiful, damned whisper lace socks. The bane of my existence for the last two days. I actually made progress today. Good progress! I was almost done with the first round of the lace pattern. 13 rows for the picot edging, and 9 rows out of 15 in the lace pattern. And you know why I am starting from square one all over again? Because I made a dumb, dumb, stupid newbie mistake! At some point I decided that I would just weave in the cast on tail, rather than weaving it in later (because that's so much easier, right?). But instead of just carrying the tail, I knit it along with the working yarn. And the strands were two different colors. Orange and blue. And I didn't realize until I started the lace pattern that there was this odd row of blue stitches, right in the middle of the orange at the tail end of the picot cuff. And it was only on one side. So it wasn't the striping gone wacky. It was me. But I was much further in before I realized that it really was me, and that I needed to fix it. As you can imagine, I really wasn't in the mood to start ripping. Again. So I took a small crochet hook and just began teasing the strand from the row. And it was working! For awhile. Then I came across this tangle of blue and orange that I, for the life of me, couldn't undo. So I grabbed my scissors and began snipping. And wouldn't you know it? I snipped a real stitch.

Damn.

So, my "practice skein" is done for. I'm not ripping all that back again. I have plenty of yarn so it just feels better to cut off the dead weight and start with the actual skein.

I will make these socks. And they will be worth all the effort because they're so beautiful, but man, it certainly hasn't been easy so far.

I suppose that's what happens when you don't think things through.

When I've made real progress and the pattern starts to emerge, I'll be sure to post a pic. But it may take awhile!