Several years at least. I have a 'plain vanilla' pattern, and I use it for a lot of my socks, with variations of color, ribbing, etc. In fact, I have it memorized.
Or, I thought I did.
Or, perhaps, I am not paying attention, which is much more likely...
Ok, for non knitters, if you knit a sock from the top down, you knit a long tube for the leg, then make a ledge, and then a shelf, for the heel, then go round and round and round for a bit, making a bit of a cone, until you get to the foot, and then another tube*, and then you finish off the toes with some sort of cup shape, unless you make a toe sock...
Well, I have been knitting when I am watching a show I very much like. The last two times I have started to work on the heel, (also referred to as "turning the heel"), and I realize something doesn't look right.
I have very merrily managed to forget the small shelf area on the sock. I then managed on this last one, to not be paying enough attention until I realized that I had WAAAAY too many stitches when I was working on the cone part...
Gah?
Frog, rip it, rip it, rip it...
So, as much as I enjoy knitting during my show, if I come to that part, I do think it would behoove me to either stop knitting for a few minutes, and enjoy the show, and maybe work on something else. I would love to stop the show, and finish the little project, but right now the recording part of my machine has nothing I can record with... Silly machine just has to have everything.
"No disk", Phooey.
But, I have pulled out the mess my mistake, and now I will work on it again.
Before the show starts...
*Ok, I am beginning to wonder about me, thank goodness I read this over before it goes up, I usually catch mistakes, I wrote tube, as toob.
Why, I do not know...
