On a very stressful Sunday, after getting sent home from work, I went and bought some yarn, Patons Classic Wool [which I love, love, love by the way!] and some 3.5mm dpns and started my first pair of socks. The Weekend Socks from Canadian Living to be specific.
After finally getting my stitches situated on my dpns, I began loving the dpns and the yarn and my emerging tube; I even didn't mind working short rows...until I had to start turning my heel. All the horror stories are true - maybe not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I could totally see how far they could go.
Picking up stitches seem to be my biggest problem. I've had to find ulterior places to pick up stitches. Can you pick up one stitch in the front bar, then one in the back? Do you have to use one or the other or both at the same time [the route I went]?
Oy. Anyways, as bad as this might turn out [I'm one of those practice makes perfect people] I've got enough stitches on one needle for the small size, and enough on the other two for the medium size and hoping this'll turn out because I have size 6 1/2 size feet anyways, perfectly in between the sizes in the pattern.
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