Socks

Well, socks is what I have been knitting. I am having a heck of a time posting pictures, but I'll give it a go. Here are the latest pair. Gonna make another pair just like it

Have not abandoned you

I have been knitting, but will post thoughts and pictures later. And I will have a few...of both.

Second pair finished!

This lousy photo will be replaced with a better one as soon as I take a new one. I am now working on another pair for me (bi-color, red and navy) and a pair of cotton ones for Dave.
More later

Second Sock Finished

Well the picture is lousy! But the sock is better fitting than the first. (I know 'cause I'm wearing it as I type. Have started a new pair and then I am taking these two apart because of the many mistakes in them.

One finished sock

I finally just jammed it all together just to finish it. I took pictures too, but the pictures are so dark, one cannot tell how many mistakes there are. The other one is half finished..

My Draft Went to Cyber Hell

I am adding two pics. They will show up where ever they show up, somewhere on this blog....It's only a page after all.
The little white things are sample socks and the green things are the actual socks I am knitting. I made the sample socks to practice the heel flap, heel turning and gussets and toe decrease and as you can see by the first one, I needed the practice. As you can see by the second sample sock, practice pays off. (I only had to rip the second one apart five times and start over: the first one was so messed up I just practiced binding off on the end and am saving it so I can see how bad I was)

Knitting....argh! Also "The Secret of Knitting"

It isn't that hard once you figure out what the hell to do. But until that glorious moment of epiphany it's slog, slog, slog. It's also rip out all the stuff you did after the one crucial little error.
Believe me I could write a book about all the mistakes.
Here is the secret of knitting. Do not make a mistake. One mistake on one stitch and everything is all fouled up until one rips the work out back to the mistake. Sigh! That is why my socks are going so slow. I am getting close, though, to the end.
I put aside the two leg parts I have to practice on a tiny sock, which I messed up a zillion times. I have now abandoned it (the tiny sock) and am thinking about making a new one. I want to practice the heel flap and the heel turning and the gusset on a small thing so I won't be ripping out my actual socks. I have about 4 library books on knitting and on knitting socks since no ONE instructor is satisfactory.
They all assume you know stuff I don't know.
I could go on complaining, but instead I will go back to knitting until I have something worthy of a picture.