Back in November I started a pair of socks for my 18yo. I thought at first that I would give them to him in time for Christmas, but I'm still having knitting mojopenia (the scientific-ish term for severely diminished but not entirely absent mojo, natch) and this pattern is really slow. For a few years there I thought I had worked enough twisted rib that I ought to be able to do it faster, but now I have reached the acceptance phase of twisted rib: it's really slow. It takes a long time; that's just the way it is.
Back in my November post I wondered if it was worth ripping back my slow and painful accretion of twisted rib to revise the pattern in a more sensible way. I bit the bullet and ripped the sock in progress, and lo I did not have a pair of socks to put under the tree for Christmas or even Epiphany. But hey: slow and steady finishes the sock even if it doesn't actually win the race, and I have finished the second foot of this pair of socks that seemed interminable.
Next up: I have to reconstruct the decrease pattern I used for the first toe. It bears no resemblance to the toe recommended by the pattern, because I wanted to finish a pattern repeat and then I had to do an emergency-hurry-up-and-decrease-crash toe to avoid the capybara stowage situation that has confronted me in past handknit socks. (That previous capybara stowage situation was remedied effectively by a trip through the dryer.)
I'd been feeling a little worried about that improvised toe, but right in this moment I am having a surge of confidence. I can wing that sock toe so that it at-least-sort-of matches the one I wung earlier. I can weave in those ends and hand off those socks. And then? It will be a long time before I take on another twisted rib project.
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