So, my sock horror story includes the Pomatomus socks that I am working on now. I am doing them from the top-down (as always), and I had many problems with the cuff. It is knit with 10 rows, and about everytime I got to the 5th row, I dropped a few stitches. I was not that experienced in picking up dropped stitches, so ended up ripping back at least 4 times! I finally got the hang of it, and then knit all the way to the heel flap. Once there, I tried the sock on and the length was ANNOYING! Therefore, I ripped the whole thing, and redid it with only one pattern repeat. This is the first pattern with which I had to rip back so much!

I sent an email to the club and they pointed to the verbose notes that are enclosed with the pattern about dyeing the yarn… I never read that stuff, I just looked at the yarn label before winding – no special instructions there, then started knitting. Bummer.

The yarn WAS beautiful and so were the socks, but I’d never make socks I couldn’t wash easily – I could have easily used a scarf out of that yarn.

Sock catastrophes. I’m not much for patterns, and more than once I’ve cast on, increased, knit the sock, cast off, cast on for the second sock, increased, knit the sock, cast off…and then realized that one sock has extra (generally just two or four, but once *twelve*) stitches. I do it on autopilot and didn’t even notice until I tried them on.

Also, the first time I tried to do two socks at a time on a long circular needle, I managed to cross the yarn between socks, not just once but several times. It had to be ripped back almost to the toes. I was so frustrated I could’ve cried.