Click on the picture for a better view. 😉
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Okay, sports fans, I kicked ass yesterday on the sock front. I actually considered pulling an all nighter to finish it, but alas, I didn’t. 2:30’s late enough to go to bed and then I slept like shit. 87000 dreams. I don’t think I ever hit deep sleep to be honest. I’m exhausted. Back to the sock. I’ve done 44 pattern repeats (I’m counting the double decreases down the front of the sock) and the finished sock has 57. So I have 26 rows left before I start for the toe decreases and as the scale says, I have half an ounce left.
A word about the scale. There’s definitely something wrong with it and as soon as this sock is finished I’m returning it. I knew pretty much as soon as I opened the box that it was a return – the instructions were kind of wrinkly and there was a Duracell battery in it already. And the low battery indicator was on. In fact, after changing the battery to a fresh one, the low battery indicator is STILL on. I weighed another one of my STR skeins and it came out to 3.8 (or 3.9 depending where it sat on the scale) as well, so I’m not too concerned that I’m getting small skeins, I just think the scale is off. I will be buying a new one.
Regardless, I’ve been weighing the freaking yarn like every ten rows. Which is ridiculous because I have no idea how much the first sock weighed at any given point during the knitting. I only know what it weighed at the END of the knitting. I will probably finish the sock today (or as much as I can – you know – if I run out of yarn) because I CANNOT STAND THE SUSPENSE! It’s killing me not knowing if the yarn will make it to the end. The pathetic little ball looks so tiny.
In the meantime I’ve become convinced these socks are magic. I’m almost afraid to finish them for fear the White Sox will lose if I’m not knitting ROCK STAR socks. Ugh.
Now go back up there and click on the picture already. Lazy ass. 😉
I love love love love them. the colors and striping go great with the pattern. your stitches are perfect too, i noticed this with my socks. I now have to make this. I will search my sock stash for the right yarn, and cast on today. Beautiful Cara, simply beautiful…
So…You don’t think some other STR would rock enough?
I have that exact same scale. It’s been called into service for all manner of, er, odd things over the past few years. If scales could talk. In this case, best that they can’t…
YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE IT! I just know it. And as long as we’re knitting SOCKS the SOX will win!!
Who you callin’ a lazy ass? I clicked on the picture right at the begining. I swear.
Nice socks, dude.
Forget the scale! Keep knitting! You’re going to make it!
Finally! Pictures. My next socks are definitely going to be out of my STR yarn. You are even turning me on to that rockin’ pink! I love them. I’m holding my breath for you. Knit fast!
Love them.
I finished my first Dot Yarns sock last night. You’re totally going to beat me on this one!
Crossing my fingers and toes over here for you and the Sox … your posts are completely eroding my resolve not to knit up the Socks That Rock currently calling to me from the Stash Closet. Love.Them.
YOWZA! They are FABULOUS! (One less hank for the igloo, though.)
I’m thinking on the optimistic side, too, but am still at the EDGE OF MY SEAT!
I just finished a sock with 30″ of yarn leftover. I’m almost (but not quite) willing to bet that you’ll be fine.
Damn, I feel like a moron for not buying any Socks that Rock yarn.
oooh Cara, they be so pretty! And yes, I was a lazy ass until you called me out. 🙂
I send you the Claudia Knit Kharma I’ve been using. Those socks are so perfect, thy cannot let you down. I now have a good feeling about them. Rub the kharma when you doubt it. You’ll be fine.
If all else fails, contrast toe.
Gorgeous, both the socks and the feet. I’m so jealous.
You have pretty feet. And I don’t even have a foot fetish. But if I did….I’m just remarking. Careful, dude. I’m sweatin’. I don’t think you’re going to make it with the yarn. Prove me wrong, will ya?
Norma beat me to it —- you really do have gorgeous feet. With feet like those, you should never wear socks! That would be like Sophia Loren wearing a bag over her head.
Hey there Cara, I’ve just gotten here and I can’t find an email, I’m reduced to comments. I’m working on a “Sunshine Sock” (I have dubbed mine “Rhinebeck Socks”, alternatively, “Teeny Tiny Socks” for my Smallest Stitches Ever) and I’m wondering if you’ll hate me forever if I put one of your pictures on my blog if I promise to link the hell out of it and say how awesome you are for the favor.
I’m a blogger with no camera, even though I’m fairly certain that’s illegal.
E-mail me, but of course I will not do so without your permission. I’d also like to learn more about the guts of your Movable Type theme. You are also a better knitter than I am, by a large margin. Peace.