And here is the progress on Socktober Socks #2. Not much. #1 went to the frog pond, as you will recall, because I was happy with neither the sock nor the yarn and the socks just flat out refused to be knit.
I want to like these Jaywalkers. I really do. I love the colors. I love the yarn — soft and sleek and just the right amount of stretchy. I want to finish these Jaywalkers. I really do.
It appears that they may be too wide.
I mean… WTF?!?!?!?!? Everyone else at the four corners of Blogistan has problems with Jaywalkers that are too narrow. But not Judy! Noooooo! Judy knits Jaywalkers that are too wide. Oh hallelujah. Good job Judy!
Of course, being only part way up the foot (almost to the gusset, though), this might change. If they’re just too wide for the intended recipient (who has smaller feet than I), then I’ll keep them for myself. Which means I have to knit two more pairs of socks before Christmas. And it’s leaving me wondering…
Did I jinx myself thoroughly by signing up for Socktober?
Have I lost my sock mojo?
Oh… say it isn’t so!
As a tiny diversion to distract you, gentle reader, from the fact that I really have no other knitting content and Socktober was not my happiest hour month… This from Wired, and thanks to Jerry of When Knitting Was A Manly Art for the link:
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words – For sale: baby shoes, never worn. – and is said to have called it his best work. Wired asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers to take a shot at writing a very, very short story. Click here to read the results. Some are amazingly good, and many are quite humorous.
Judy, say it ain’t so! No sock mojo? How can this be? You are my sock guru – I thought it was just me on a Sockless Socktober! I thought it was work demons consuming my life! That and ISE2 resulted in no socks for me either! I fear the Sock Nazi bumped us out of line!
Here is to a Socky November – 🙂
1Remark from Kat — Wednesday, 11/1/2006 @ 11:30 AM
You’re not the only one who has had trouble with the Jaywalker pattern. I made one pair, and it was … meh, okay, but the next one I tried in a lighter weight yarn was awful – had all kinds of baggy-fit “issues” especially around the ankle. So I just garbage-canned them (scratchy yarn too) and went back to my favorite pattern, plain ol’ ribs.
2Remark from KarenK from the OR coast — Wednesday, 11/1/2006 @ 12:53 PM
Now I feel lucky to have had such a successful Socktoberfest. Is this your first pair of Jaywalkers? I’ve only knit one pair (top down), but next time it’s toe-up for me. You’ve converted me to your toe-up ways.
3Remark from ~Kristie — Thursday, 11/2/2006 @ 1:55 PM
I have knitted one pair of jaywalkers so far, and they were too wide for my skinny feet.
4Remark from Claire — Thursday, 11/2/2006 @ 2:05 PM