I admit it, I got cocky. ‘I wonder how fast I could make a whole sock now’ I thought. For I, as you may know, am now a sock knitting wizard.
But then I went to knit the next needle and found this:
A big, long, accidental float on the outside. On the previous round I must not have noticed that the yarn was wrapped round the side (a frequent occurrence), so I missed a whole needle and carried on knitting the next one.
I’m a dingbat.
But now I’m a dingbat who will always double and triple check that the yarn is not wrapped round anywhere in any way before I start knitting.
Plus this is the first time I’ve had to undo anything on the second sock, so on balance I’m doing pretty well.
But let’s not get cocky…
Hannah
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If you added up all the frogging I’ve had to do for not noticing things at the time ..
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Does it ever stop making you feel like a total dingbat, I wonder? I always always feel like I should have known better.
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Every. Single. Time.
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Oops! We all get cocky and make mistakes it is human nature β€
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OMG! Hannah, that is hysterical. I did that once when I was learning to knit socks on double points.
We can be dingbats together!
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Yay me too! and I noticed after several rows π
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Well congratulations and welcome to the dingbat section. Have a seat, you’re in good company, right Hannah? π
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Yay I’m part of the dingbat club! Will we get badges? π
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We wear our dingbatness on our sleeves. People can see us coming from a mile away. Pretty sure!
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I find that making the second one of anything is always harder π
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It’s definitely harder to keep the motivation up, but thankfully my next pair of socks is going sooooo much faster.
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Thatβs the spirit! π A friend of mine told me that she now knits both socks at the same time. She loves this method and says that itβs a sure way to avoid having two different ones ππ
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Haha!! We’re all dingbats at one time or another. I’d say you got pretty lucky this time around!
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Iβve made mistakes so many n then Iβll see it or them several rows after the fact on king size blanket no less! Frog it out n do it again, π. Frustrating yes, but itβs okay Iβll live. As other posters said were only human! βπ»
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I try to think of it as extra knitting/crochet time, but undoing work is still annoying!
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Eh, that sort of thing happens all the time! You discovered it early, so good catch π
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Hopefully not ALL the time, or I’ll never get anything finished!
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I still think youβre doing amazing, this little thing happens all the time on socks and double pointed needles
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Thanks π I’m glad I’m not the only one.
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