A Learning Process

One of the things I really love about knitting is that it is a learning process, with new things to uncover at every turn. With that comes mistakes though and I made a big one in my first magic loop project.

I was trucking along, as you can tell by my last couple posts. I had gotten down the leg, through the heel flap and turn, picked up the stitches for the gusset and was working the gusset decrease and the beginning of the instep when I noticed something odd...

I have tried to take pictures of my conundrum, but they do not show the stitch pattern clearly enough.

Long story short: I had knit the leg of the sock on the wrong side. The stitch pattern (a waterfall rib) was so pretty that even the wrong side looked nice and I didn't really notice my mistake, until I turned the work somehow in the gusset decrease and the instep pattern was correct (and different).

I debated leaving it as it was and having a cool transition look from leg to foot, it kind of flowed and twisted at the heel. Then I realized I was making these socks for myself on no time line with really nice yarn and should do it right. I also didn't want to learn a wrong behavior.

So I frogged a week's worth of knitting and started over. To date I am back to the heel flap and hope to turn the heel and work the gusset tonight. Lesson learned. I still love magic loop!

In other knitting news, I cast on and have done about 11 rows of a baby blanket for my assistant who is due in May. More on that (including photos) to come soon!