With the help of a weekend off and a Buffy film-fest, I actually managed to finish my first pair of Jaywalkers! And here they are!
Aren't they beauts?
But confession time? Two mistakes on the second one. You perfectionists out there, just look away now, because I didn't fix them.
The first was a little hole when I picked up stitches for the ankle gusset. Where does it come from? Where? And why not every time? I did them both the exact same way, and yet the first one? No hole! Gah!
The other one was definitely my mistake, though. I forgot that you decrease all the way down to 18 stitches on the sole, instead of leaving it at 21, and went for a couple of inches at 21, until I started to wonder why they weren't doing the cool color-pooling tie-dyed effect the other ones did in the foot, which I kind of like, by the way. And I know I should have ripped back those couple of inches. Frankly, the ripping and re-doing, I don't mind so much. But the picking up tiny little stitches with tiny sharp little needles? Yeah. No. They're bloody socks! For me! I can live with it!
I will, however, try to do better on my Painted Ladies. I've highlighted the pertinent passages in the pattern and everything.
But first, I have a scarfy-hoody thing (Head Hugger to its friends) to finish up for my grandma. The pattern is great, but it's an insipid lavender and a wool/acrylic blend. It makes me think of mental hospitals. But Grandma will love it, and she's the only grandma I've got, so I keep plugging away.
Now I just have to decide what to do next...
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