I decided to treat myself to a pair of Rainy Day Socks http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rainy-day-socks out of a double strand of sock yarn (my LYS has like no sport weight anything). So I picked out some beautiful pink/orange/yellow stuff and get ready to start and then I decide to check out others on Rav just in case I find a change I love... I don't find anything I like better than the original- but I see tons with just a rib instead of the picot edge! Hmmmmm why? cause the provisional cast on double thick picot edge is a huge pita! Like you have got to be kidding!
Maybe just maybe I am not good at it- or probably I just lack experience and desire. So I am grumbling and decide to scratch the whole idea simply because I am lazy- so I cast on for a pair of socks for DH. He sees me do it and storming around and finally has to ask what my deal is. I tell him. He looks at me like I am the laziest person in the world and was like- so you are whining because you would have to put in an extra little 5 rows on each sock? Which did put things in perspective.
So I find a crochet hook. I do my provisional cast on. I knit the 11 rows for the picot edge- grumbling of course the whole time. Then it happens. I clearly did not cast on through the 'illusive back loop of the crochet chain'. I tediously spend an hour picking out that dang waste yarn to get my live stitches once again live. But you know what? It was totally worth it! I am loving how they are starting to look!
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So- if someone can explain to me what look exactly I am supposed to pick up when knitting- I would be so grateful- but even if I have to spend an hour picking out my thread- at least on the next sock I will be smart enough not to use a black yarn!
Maybe just maybe I am not good at it- or probably I just lack experience and desire. So I am grumbling and decide to scratch the whole idea simply because I am lazy- so I cast on for a pair of socks for DH. He sees me do it and storming around and finally has to ask what my deal is. I tell him. He looks at me like I am the laziest person in the world and was like- so you are whining because you would have to put in an extra little 5 rows on each sock? Which did put things in perspective.
So I find a crochet hook. I do my provisional cast on. I knit the 11 rows for the picot edge- grumbling of course the whole time. Then it happens. I clearly did not cast on through the 'illusive back loop of the crochet chain'. I tediously spend an hour picking out that dang waste yarn to get my live stitches once again live. But you know what? It was totally worth it! I am loving how they are starting to look!
:So- if someone can explain to me what look exactly I am supposed to pick up when knitting- I would be so grateful- but even if I have to spend an hour picking out my thread- at least on the next sock I will be smart enough not to use a black yarn!
