Not so much. In seventeen days I got one sock finished. Not a pair of socks, ONE sock. And I was past the heel to begin with! There’s not really that much left to be done on any of these projects, I swear. The edging on the shawl, seaming and stuffing of the bear, duplicate stitching of details on the hat, and the little bit left on one sock plus the second. I literally have nothing else to do all damn day, what the hell happened??

I guess I can blame part of it on pain meds tho that seems like a cop-out to me. Really, I just couldn’t get into it. It’s like…if I have a deadline, even one as arbitrary and pointless as this (I mean, it’s not like it really matters that I didn’t get it done!) it makes me feel pushed and I hate feeling pushed. Hate hate hate. So even tho this was just for fun and only a “competition” with myself I think that looming deadline screwed me. Stupid, yes? Yes.

But, I did get that one sock done I’m totally happy with it even tho there are some obvious problems. You can see in this picture where the toe was done on four needles instead of the two she talked about in the pattern. I tried that, like 5 times, I just couldn’t get the hang of how tight it seemed working on only two. It was so much easier for me when I went ahead and did it on four but I’ve never been able to get rid of those ladders between needles. I’ve read and tried all sorts of different ways to help that but the only thing that’s ever worked for me is knitting the next stitch on the next needle when I’m done with one needle. Did that make any sense?? Anyway, I didn’t want to try that here because I was terrified of losing my place with the stitches constantly moving, I suck with stitch markers on DPNs. In the end I don’t really care, it’s my first sock ever and I love it I just turned the heel on the second so for these socks the largest part of pattern knitting is still ahead of me. I can’t remember how many repeats I did on the foot, I also suck at taking notes while knitting, but I think it was around seven or eight – double what I did on the ankle. Still, once I get into a rhythm I found it to be a pretty quick knit. Surely to FSM it won’t take me another seventeen days to have a pair!

Of course, part of me is asking myself why I bother when I won’t be able to wear the pair as a pair for 3 months or more…