Okay. I think it's time to switch projects for a while.
I've been trying to learn how to knit socks toe-up, two at a time on two circular needles, which, in theory, is something that shouldn't give me too much trouble. In theory.
Yet after much weeping, cursing and gnashing of teeth, I have just frogged the toe of the Baudelaire socks I'm working on for at least the 10th time. I've got a stabbing pain behind my left eye and fell asleep at 7 o'clock last night, completely spent after trying to figure out why I'm being so unusually thick-headed when it comes to this project.
For the record, I'm using the Sherman Short Row Sock method, which seems to be a miracle toe-up method for everyone who has tried it. Everyone but me, that is.
The first two or three times I began working the toe, I knit the encroachments wrong, not fulling comprehending how the stitches were to work. This tutorial shed light on my problem. Then I had trouble with the with small holes forming on one side of the sock after knitting up the encroachments. I finally worked through that problem, and was nearing the end of the toe, when I inexplicably screwed up the last knit encroachment so badly that I couldn't figure out how to put things back together again, and, in a fit of anger, frogged the whole thing yet again.
Which is why I'm going to be working on this, this and this for a while, instead.
