In Which I Discover I am not always the smartest knitter
So, I'm sitting down after dinner to turn a few rounds on my sock before settling in to see how much reading I can get done while watching Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal make tennis look easy and there is just something wrong with the sock.
First off, I have to have cast on one too many stitches, so there is an irregularity in the pattern at the end. Secondly, they just look enormous. At first, this is normal. When you cast on sixty-four stitches in the round, I have discovered that I feel like I've done something wrong for the first twenty rounds or so because it seems huge and amorphous. This is because at the beginning it doesn't have a shape; you are making the shape. Eventually, you settle into the rhythm of the pattern and it settles into its shape and everything goes smoothly.
But, this just wasn't happening with my Wasp Woman sock. Instead of settling into a familiar sock-y shape, it seemed to be growing. So, I counted the number of stitches I'd cast on again. Then, I counted them once more for verification. If its not the stitches, I reasoned, because I had just verified that I had the correct number of stitches (plus the goofy one messing up the pattern) and it wasn't the gauge because my knitting is tight and consistent (since this is my fourth sock since moving to Buffalo, it should be pretty consistent by now.) It had to be the yarn. So, I grabbed the sleeve and I looked at it again.
100% cotton. Check.
4-Ply. So far, good.
Worsted Weight. .........
Oh, I'm an idiot. In my haste to find a color that I liked and that would be appropriate, I picked up a whole ton of cotton yarn that I'm not going to be able to use for its intended purpose. Gah. (Unless I decide to start knitting socks for giants.) No wonder it seemed so stiff and so bulky while I was casting on!
The good news is, I believe there is something further down in my Ravelry queue that I can make in Wasp Woman yellow instead of lime green.
