Hoo boy, would you get a load of this! And this is only the front of the sock; the back of it was purple on one side, brown on the other. It was pooling all around. It was...fairly unattractive. It was certainly obscuring the pattern, and that's never any good.
The pattern is Devil's Snare Sock, which I'm knitting for the Old School Sock Knitters' March knitalong. And the only reason I got as far on this badly-pooling sock as I did is that the pattern is so much fun to knit. I actually did another pattern repeat after I took this picture. You'd think the picture would have been enough to make me say, "This really isn't working out," but no.
Anyway. Yesterday I couldn't face the Devil's Snare sock - do I keep knitting? Do I admit it's not working out and frog it? Do I ignore it for the time being and finish my No Purl Monkey? Yeah, that's the ticket. So I finished the first NPM, which looks gorgeous but I forgot to take a picture. And then last night I decided I really had to let the first attempt at Devil's Snare go. The yarn (Knitpicks Essential in Meadow Multi) will be happier with another sock, and the sock will be happier with another yarn.
What other yarn? Well, we can all forget about the Slings & Arrows socks that I imagined I was going to design. Because it's that yarn. This is Knitpicks Essential in Terrain Twist, and it is only accentuating Devil's Snare's obvious charms.
Much better! And I've knit two more pattern repeats since taking this picture. I didn't even mind frogging the first attempt; rather than "a waste of time," I'm thinking of it as "three bonus pattern repeats."
Back soon, probably with more socks...
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