[Yarn] Monkey Love
So I finally started the Monkey socks from Knitty. I was trying to avoid the MOST USED SOCK PATTERN ON RAVELRY but I decided I'd give it a whirl anyway.
Yeah, they were right. It rocks my panties. The pattern is indeed dirt simple to memorize, it looks great, and I got the size DEAD ON the first try.
... But honestly. How many times can you fuck up a heel? Three, apparently. I turned it once, had an extra stitch, backed up to the top (bottom?) of the flap, knitted a row or two, backed up, counted the stitches, and I had two extra on the flap. WTF. So I ripped the whole damn flap, found the error and fixed it, knitted away, counted my stitches, dead on ... checked the other two on a lark and I'd fucked up the pattern on the last row on needle 2. -.- Rip, rip, rip.
Now it's coming along quite nicely, except for me falling victim once again to the evils of the gusset -- I forget sometimes that I need to STOP at some point, and sure enough when I counted my stitches I'd done two extra decrease rows.
... Rip, rip, rip.
THANKFULLY the pattern is just straight on until I get to seven inches, at which time I'm going to be doing even decreases so I won't be able to fuck that up too :P
As stated on Ravelry, I did a slip stitch heel instead of the plain heel the pattern called for. I like the look better. I also did only five pattern repeats before the heel; I don't like eight-inch tall socks particularly much, that's a bit big for me.
I may well knit these again; if I do I may try what some others have and knit the purl stitches, to see how that changes the pattern. Should be interesting, if nothing else, and I'll find out quickly enough if I like it or not since it's a top-down pattern. I also saw someone's FO and decided I have to get a skein of Opal's Rainforest, because her Monkeys looked SO NEAT with the way the yarn changed colors.
Sock #1 almost complete, then I gotta try and get #2 done before my yarn from SWTC shows up...
Yeah, they were right. It rocks my panties. The pattern is indeed dirt simple to memorize, it looks great, and I got the size DEAD ON the first try.
... But honestly. How many times can you fuck up a heel? Three, apparently. I turned it once, had an extra stitch, backed up to the top (bottom?) of the flap, knitted a row or two, backed up, counted the stitches, and I had two extra on the flap. WTF. So I ripped the whole damn flap, found the error and fixed it, knitted away, counted my stitches, dead on ... checked the other two on a lark and I'd fucked up the pattern on the last row on needle 2. -.- Rip, rip, rip.
Now it's coming along quite nicely, except for me falling victim once again to the evils of the gusset -- I forget sometimes that I need to STOP at some point, and sure enough when I counted my stitches I'd done two extra decrease rows.
... Rip, rip, rip.
THANKFULLY the pattern is just straight on until I get to seven inches, at which time I'm going to be doing even decreases so I won't be able to fuck that up too :P
As stated on Ravelry, I did a slip stitch heel instead of the plain heel the pattern called for. I like the look better. I also did only five pattern repeats before the heel; I don't like eight-inch tall socks particularly much, that's a bit big for me.
I may well knit these again; if I do I may try what some others have and knit the purl stitches, to see how that changes the pattern. Should be interesting, if nothing else, and I'll find out quickly enough if I like it or not since it's a top-down pattern. I also saw someone's FO and decided I have to get a skein of Opal's Rainforest, because her Monkeys looked SO NEAT with the way the yarn changed colors.
Sock #1 almost complete, then I gotta try and get #2 done before my yarn from SWTC shows up...