Yarnification

I haven’t been able to get anywhere with any of my projects this week.

I still mean to get a photo of the shawl but haven’t been able to manage it yet.

I started the corset. I made some unfathomable mistake (despite all the obsessive counting) and had to frog a row, then made more mistakes and frogged the whole thing. Theory: I was too damn tired to be working on anything that complicated.

And socks. I have this pair of socks I’ve had going for the longest time. I’m on the ankle ribbing on the second sock. It’s done in sc rows, back loop, and every time I pick it up I screw it up in a new and different way.

This is possibly a little pathetic on account of how easy sc ribbing really is. I don’t know why I can’t just get through it.

Most recently, I can’t make the gauge match what I’ve already done. I have no clue what to do (use a smaller hook? frog the whole thing and start over since all I’ve got done is 50 rows of ribbing? but then what if it ends up not matching the first sock?)

I can’t imagine that my gauge has changed that much in the (gulp) year since I started this sock. But what else would explain that? My E hook was in the bag with the project all this time, so I’m sure it’s the hook I was using with it.

I dunno. It’s looking like having a go with a D hook would be the simplest thing.

Wish me luck—it’s not looking like skill is getting me far this week.