Happy Monday!
I was winding the rest of my yarn for the test knit yesterday, and I decided I wanted to wind the yarn for my next pair of “fun socks.” I decided to make the Pebbles and Pathways Socks, and I cast on last night. I chose to use last January’s Farmers Daughter Fibers Sock Squad yarn, which is the Pinlter Sock in the colorway A New Dawn. I’m looking forward to working on these on the bus and at lunch at work!
This means I did go ahead and frog the Patons socks. While having pure stockinette socks is nice, this combo just wasn’t working for me. I do usually like working with 9 inch circulars, but this gauge was too tight for the thicker Patons yarn and it just wasn’t that enjoyable to knit. In theory, I don’t necessarily mind having two socks in progress at the same time, but I found I wasn’t really wanting to knit those socks at all, so I just frogged them.
The other reason I frogged them was because I decided to join Sarah’s Vertices Unite KAL, and if I didn’t do that, I would have had 6 projects on the needles, and I am trying to keep that number to 5 or less. My YoP list also includes taking part in two KALs, and this one seemed really fun! I had an awesome time diving through stash to try and find things that would work, and I think I was successful.
Ok somehow I’ve found stuff to post about 3 days in a row so it will probably be a while before you here from me again 😜
Pretty color for your new socks. Frogging the other ones makes a lot of sense. You have some great colors for the KAL.
That’s such a cute bag for your sock yarn! And a fun colorway for your next pair of socks!!
(I hope you keep finding reasons to post despite posting three days in a row 😜)
Haha I’m sure I’ll be able to think of something 🤣
Ohhh, both of these look great! I wish you lots of fun! I think it’s best to frog stuff that you know you will NOT enjoy working on. I have to get better at that, so KUDOS for making the decision and ripping out!
the shawl look super interesting, and you picked great yarn!
Thanks! 2020 was a big year for getting over frogging, when I realized I had more than 20 wips/ufos I was like ok this is too much and frogged a bunch of stuff so now I’m much more inclined to do it.
True – the more you do it the less horrible it becomes. I hope I can frog this year whenever I need to!
How fun that your bag matches your sock yarn! I love it when that happens. That KAL sounds like a lot of fun – I like the colors you’ve picked!
Yes me too! Definitely picked this bag out of several sock ones I have for that reason lol!
I love the look of that new sock design! It should really pop in the color you picked. 🙂 I think it sounds like you made a good choice in frogging the other socks. Why work on them if they’re supposed to be fun socks but you’re not enjoying them?
If you don’t like something, just no point going on. Love the new choice.
Like your new sock choice! You are right, if you aren’t enjoying it there’s no point in continuing. Glad you are joining our KAL!!