A sock nearly abandoned (twice)

 I finished the first sock of a pair, a sock that has been in various stages of "on the needles" since the beginning of January 2009.  In fact I have nearly given up on these socks several times.  I was originally knitting a rather pretty sock with this yarn but I seem to recall that I got bogged down and abandoned it because I really didn't like the way this particular yarn looked in this particular pattern.  

Looking back at it now, I can't imagine what I was thinking  because it looks lovely in the photo I posted (see link above).  

Anyway, it sat, abandoned until sometime last summer or early fall, when Moisés discovered yarn and learned how to burrow into my knitting bag and pull out the projects.  The sock got mostly unraveled and I decided to unravel it completely and start over.  

The second time around I decided to knit a basic sock with a picot hem at the top, pretty much my basic sock when using a self-striping yarn, but of course more boring with a plain yarn.  I got as far as knitting finishing the picot hem and then I put it aside.  A few months later, needing a portable mindless project I picked it up again only to put it aside again because I didn't feel like knitting the heel.

I would guess I picked it up again about a month ago, knit the heel, twice, as I didn't like my first short-row technique and redid it another way, and continued knitting until I got to the toe shaping.  Then I noticed an error back at the base of the heel stitches and I had to rip it out.

I ripped and ripped and ripped some more.  I considered ripping it all.  I considered abandoning the sock.  Truthfully I didn't really like the way the knitted fabric felt as I was knitting the sock.  It was very scratchy.  But I decided to try again, knit one sock and wash it to see if the yarn softened up in the wash.  I ripped back beyond the heel to some point on the leg.  I had decided to make the sock a little longer over the ankle so I could wear it with a particular pair of boots.

I finished the sock Saturday night.  Sunday I washed it and left it to dry.  It is very very soft.  I started the second sock this morning in yet another waiting room at yet another doctor's office.   

Comments

[Susan]

Very nice blue sock. What a great colorway. You could embroider a design on it, but really, it is fine as is.