Skew-2
SKEW-WEEK 2 is upon me and I have to say I really was challenged to obey the instructions of the Skew Sock pattern, especially the one that read "trust the pattern". It was kind of Luke Skywalker/Jedi Knitter type of thing where I kept trying to make sense of the whole thing and was failing BIG TIME.
I tell you, people...they are right! Trust The Force....er, the pattern.
My Sock Buddy (I will tell you about my wonderful "Sock Buddy" some other time) has a Koigu number of 64...meaning her foot is happiest with a circumfrence stitch count of 64. She is a size 9 shoe with a rather slender hoof over the instep. Skew was coming up with 82 stitches....and I was freaking out.
I decided to stay true to the pattern for the sake of the KAL'ers, and frog the damnable thing once done. My plan was to get into the pysche of the genius/madwoman designer and re-vamp the stitch count to better fit the SB's foot. (yes, I come from a long line of poets and anarchists, but again that's a story for another time.) Now I am doing the weird little ankle thing and WHAT-HO, WATSON!....it seems to be going up better than expected!
So my advice this week is to Trust.
P.S...The mass of fuzz in the lower-left corner is Jackson the Wonder-pup taking a break from his demanding schedule at the shop. We tried to get him to sniff the sock interestedly, but he was not as impressed at the sock archetecture as we were. Go Figure.
