Forever socks
February 23, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under knitting
Oh man!
I can’t believe how long it took me to knit this pair of socks!
I am calling them ‘the forever socks’
That’s how long it took to knit them.
Just plain ole, ‘let your yarn make your pattern’ socks for my darlin’. Because I loves him.
And, everybody knows that handknitted socks beat the bejabbers off store bought ones, so of course, you want your beloved to wear sockies that you made for him with your own little paws, right?
Well….. life sometimes gets in the way of getting sockies done. People who can ACTUALLY count their unfinished projects astonish me. I have enough ‘UFO’s’ to occupy several lifetimes. Far too many to be able to count them!
So, sometimes, socks languish on the needles for months.
and months.
and months…..
So….. lately, I have taken to knitting my honeypie’s socks while we are driving in and out of the city. (We live on a small farm outside a city in Western Canada).
Um… he drives. I knit.
And, because I can knit socks in the dark, but can’t crochet or weave in the dark, I can knit my honey’s socks while we drive home from things that kept us out after dark.
Are the socks absolutely poifeck? Nah. But, at least, these knitted in the dark socks are DONE.
Wait a minute…. I have to finish off that toe….
Oh rats. Here I was, thrilling to the thought of them being done, and the toe’s still open to the breezes.
Oh NO!…. now I have to find the mate (knitted months and months and months ago) to this ~almost~ done sock………
That could take FOREVER!
I don’t feel quite so guilty about still having my DH’s shirt from last Christmas sitting, unfinished, on my sewing table
Gee I was only a week late with my cross stitch wedding present.
(but I’m not telling about the rest of the UFOs around the place)
Ah, UFO’s sigh……..
Are we all yarn sluts or just easily distracted by new patterns, yarns and all the wonderful possibilities of things we could make? All of my UFOs and USOs (unstarted objects–also known as WIMs works in mind) are for myself. I seem to be able to finish gifts and charity projects. I need to treat myself better and make myself a few nice things.
Here here! Wendy!
I am always working on new designs (that, of course, are NOT for me), and lately, I have been walking around, looking like a frump! humph!
Time to take some time for making ourselves something lovely! (but not right now…. I have deadlines to meet…. sigh)
LOL