Question 13

13) Why don't I knit more socks for myself?
a) It takes too long.
b) I don't wear socks.
c) Different sized feet & difficulty adapting patterns.
d) a & b
e) b & c


Not a whole lot has happened in the past couple of weeks. I've been enjoying the solitude while my mom & sis are on vacation. They'll be back on Sunday. *sigh* Luckily, they're bringing me some wonderful semi-local to our cabin food, so that will mitigate their reappearance. That, and the fact that the cats will be happy to see them. I'm getting a bit sick of the yowling. (Both cats are lonely and miss my mom. I am clearly an insufficient substitute, not even good enough to pet them.)

Classes have been going okay. The prof for my evening (anatomy & physiology) class has an unusual lecture style, and I could live happily without ever having another class with some of my fellow students, but it's still okay. Less than 16 weeks left now, you know. (I know this because we have 16 week semesters, not because I'm counting down frantically. Yet. That may come.)

I have gotten some knitting done. Specifically, I've finished the first sleeve on 2 of my sweaters-in-progress, and have begun work on both of the second sleeves. I've also cast on for the second Potato Chip Sock, because last night I really needed some mindless knitting.

Then there's the package that arrived yesterday.


That's a 14 x 18 x 10 inch box. Full of yarn. F.U.L.L. Curse Webs and their semi-annual sales! You know, in that Curse-them-but-they'd-better-not-be-late-with-the-next-sale-flyer kind of way. I obviously mis-estimated how much yarn I'd need for a pair of socks, because I thought I'd get about 8 pairs from the yarn. I must have been really, really tired when I was doing that math. But this should keep me happily knitting through most, if not all, of next year. It could be worse.

I could be out of yarn.

Answer to Question 13: E
I don't really care how long a project takes if it's a pattern that interests me. And socks are usually pretty interesting. Even the plain ones have heel and toe shaping, and it's pretty cool to watch a knitted item become a 3-D shape, at least to me. That knocks out answers A and D.

I don't wear socks. This is mostly because they don't seem (to me) to go with Crocs, and I wear my Crocs year round. Also, I think the little bumps on the insoles of my Crocs would probably be pretty hard on socks. I can't imagine knitting socks and then abusing them like that.

It's also true that my feet are different sizes. Not length-wise. It's the widths that are off. This means that the only matching socks that I could really knit that would fit my feet would be plain, solid-color socks. For them to have any chance of fitting inside my shoes, they'd have to be made of sock-weight yarn. Maybe lace-weight, on days when my feet are swollen. Do you have any idea how many stitches that would be, with teeny-tiny solid color yarn, worked round and round (forever!) in stockinette stitch? I'll stick to other projects, thanks.