I had some difficulties with the lace pattern on the Marigold sock and had to frog back several times in order to try to figure out what I was doing wrong with the lace pattern.  During the course of my multiple froggings, I learned to knit in the round with two circular needles, trying to make the lace pattern work out such that I didn’t end up with a knit two together breaking across needles.

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Sometimes projects flow seamlessly from start to finish, and sometimes they start over.  Sometimes when that happens, it’s very frustrating, but sometimes starting over is a good thing.

I made a tragic error on the lace in the Marigold Socks when I moved from the foot rounds to the leg rounds.  I lost my place horribly and kept getting inadvertant yarn-over increases.  So I did the only thing that I could do, given the complete mess I’d made of it…

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Before I got sock yarn for my birthday, I had already signed up for a sock club (SSSSYC) based on the fact that I would get one skein of wonderful, rainbow striped yarn. The yarn arrived this week. I was going to wait and knit up the yarn from the Pride and Prejudice book/sock club instead, but I’ve both had a migraine and been waiting for a back issue of Interweave Knits to arrive so I could knit my pair of wine and roses mitts.

I’m tired of waiting to knit with this yarn, so I present: the socks I’ve been waiting all summer for:

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I am currently enjoying the arrival of new yarns monthly from two different sock clubs. One is Anna at Knitting up a Storm’s “Reading the Classics” Sock Club which has featured yarns inspired by The Great Gatsby, Dracula, and (next month) Pride and Prejudice. The other is Brooke at The Painted Tiger’s Super Striped Summer Sock Yarn Club (or SSSSYC for short), which has had patriotic stripes, a variegated yarn inspired by a super cute knitting chicken motif fabric (which was a surprise that made me laugh so hard I almost choked on my tea), and August will feature some version of her signature rainbows (as recently Harloted).

The thing is there are dangers in sock clubs and no one tells you about them.

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