Thursday, August 24, 2006

nothing is coming up socks today!

If you would like a cheerier sock post - see the two below. I need a moment to complain.

You see, I have used Silver's sock tutorial as a great basis for worsted weight socks (personally I think the gussett is a little baggy if you are using regular sock yarn and size 3's but the instructions are fabu for worsted weight socks).

So I decided in a whim when I was buying some yarn for the super secret socks to buy some metal needles too so I can cruise throught hese socks. Today I had finished the decreasing on the gusset, and I decided to try them on. And they do not fit!!

So then I look at the needles and pull out my bamboo size 6 ones.

My bamboo ones are .25 MM bigger! Augh. So now I have to frog an almost finished sock, Darn it!

So are size 6 sock needles supposed to be 4MM or 4.25MM?

Back to the bamboo ones which make my socks fit. And back to starting over! I would like to finish these by Satudrday! Oh no! Will I be able to do it?

3 comments:

Susan said...

a HA those are not susansocks - very clever. or else you are just pretending they are not. I'm sure whatever socks end up susansocks will be even more beeyewteefull tho. :)

btw we are getting a Hobby Lobby out by Target but aren't they the ones who don't have needlework stuff, but more like a hobby shop? I hope I'm wrong because I don't trust Hal to go to ACMoore... well not often anyway. of course I have knitting project supplies out the wahzoo at home already because of the stuff I haven't got 'round to knitting.

also we will have a World Market, but knowing how our stores always turn out after they've been a*****-ized, they will probably only carry 3 pr 4 foodstuffs, 2 wine varieties, a teak desk, some bamboo cooking utensils and a batik sarong. (that tangent idea was going to become a blog entry but I couldn't take it any further... guess it might show up someday in one of my list-o-tidbits entries tho... :)

Jessica said...

the susan socks (which are not pictured anywhere on this blog) are not progressing as fast as I would like. Hmm. They may not be SuLuSam Anniversary socks anymore.

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