Fickle, fickle, fickle

Categories: books, knitting

Tags: Books, knitting

Date: 02 July 2010 22:51:18

So my sister is not getting a pair of socks on her birthday. Thank you for your comments - some very good ideas. I have one complete sock and two inches of toe. This will blatantly not have transformed into a completed sock by morning, so I am going to keep them until I can give them to her in person (about 3 weeks time). Three weeks to complete the sock will still take some fairly serious concentration, so why do I feel the need to start a new scarf? I've spent the evening watching The Devil Wears Prada and knitting in a rather lacklustre fashion on the sock.

I have diagnosed the problem: a serious case of second sock syndrome. This is a well known knitting malaise, here combined with an oncoming attack of startitis. You see, I'm what the Yarn Harlot calls a process knitter. Knitting for me is all about learning new things, figuring out a new technique and mastering it. Why knit something twice? Am I going to learn more on the second sock? Perhaps - it has the slight interest of having a mirror-image of the spiralling pattern of the first sock, but I'm not sure that is enough. The finished object is rarely of great interest.

I have another single sock completed - this one being a complicated multi-cable-stitch pattern. I decided to postpone casting on the second one so I could meet the deadline of my sister's birthday. Who was I kidding?

Fickle, that's what I am when it comes to knitting. Can't the world understand that the Moebius cast-on is much more exciting than plain knitting in the round with the odd increase here and there?

In other news, I am having a bit of a children's literature theme. I'm loving reading Winnie the Pooh to Rusk and I'm also reading the Chronicles of Narnia 'for work'.