Have you ever felt like your knitting is against you? That for some reason, against all odds, your knitting is determined to have a mind of its own and not behaving nicely? Well, recently, that was my knitting and me.
The Tale of Friends
Once upon a time, there was a knitter and a WIP (work in progress) sock. The sock was beautiful and soft. The colors were cool and were knitted up in a beautiful wave fashion. The colors organized themselves into stripes and made the knitter joyously happy to see them.
Then it was time for the heel. Now, typically, the heel is fun for the knitter; it looks pretty and is fun to make. But this time, this time the heel was a true heel. First off, the directions were labeled “Heel: Forethought Feel.” This was different but the knitter looked forward to bravely facing the challenge. All the sudden, the words “provisional cast on” were read and the knitter read the directions over and over and ended with a resounding “What?!” But she persevered. She got out the crochet hook and did the provisional cast on and started to knit the heel. Then she realized that it would be best to make sure what she had done was actually correct. Thank goodness she did this because her work was incorrect. Many tears would have followed this mistake. But on she went, reading the directions, following them, trying so hard and getting completely fed up. Then she ventured off to the magical world of YouTube and bam! she understood. Suddenly the union of crochet hook and knitting needle made sense and all was right with the world.
The knitter rejoiced! At last victory was won! However, she spoke too soon. Later when she went to connect this needle to the sock, the knitting turned ugly. It was no longer beautiful knitting. The joins were huge! Yarn ends were everywhere! So she ripped it out and told the knitting that heel was through! They would not be friends! She would carry on like regular and make up her own heel pattern and do it her own way and to heck with the pattern! However, she realized that in doing the heel this way, there would be no decreasing of the gussets (another arch-enemy of our knitter). With resignation in her heart, she turned back to the knitting. Looking at it, she gave it a firm talking to. They would be friends and the knitting would behave; it had no choice. The cast on would work and the heel would be seen through. With deep determination, the knitter bravely stepped forward and started to cast on again. She knitted and knitted and knitted and then there was
… a heel. A provisionally cast on, friendly heel. Everything was at peace. The knitting and the knitter were once again friends. Too bad there are two socks and the whole episode maybe repeated. But for now, a happy ending abounds.
The End
Nice story! Maybe you should become an author! ( I’m not kidding) Love you! ❤ ❤ 🙂 🙂