KnittingNutter

I'm knitting the Columbine Peak lace socks from Cat Bordhie's knitting with two circular needles book and I thought I was nearly done with the first sock... and then horror of all horror, the lace right on the front of the sock is wrong. I've knitted one of the holes in the lace pattern one stitch over. Gah!

And that was 40 rows ago! If it wasn't quite so visible I may have just left it, but really who wants a displaced pattern, in pride of place, on the front of your sock!? Not me and certainly not my mother in law, who will be the lucky recipient of this sock (although she may tell me that she's allergic to wool and then I get to keep them - but that's another story altogether).

Guess what I will be doing tonight? Can you say F-R-O-G! Let's hear it for Asa - nicely done!

My brain is turning into wool - I swear. 10 days to Christmas and I'm starting to make Rookie mistakes. I have two socks left to knit - one of each set for my brother in law and mother in law - yes, I know the dreaded present for the mother in law (why did I leave her gift to last?).

Yesterday, I slipped the wrong stitch over from each of the needles, leaving me with purled stitches on each end, when it called for knitted stitches. I'm completely oblivious of this as I knit the heel and then comes the dreaded moment - gah!

Yet again, I'm frogging like a mad woman and then trying to catch up on a full evening's work, whilst not trying to panic about the little time I have left - and the things that will take me away from essential knitting time: the Lucia party we're going to tonight, Christmas shopping, food preparations, office party... oh, and work.

Fingers crossed I won't be giving my mother in law one sock for Christmas.

OK, I've calmed down now. Half a sock to go and a few days left til Christmas. Thanks all for your kind comments.

Knowing me, I need to feel the panic rising before I finish the last half of that sock, so what am I doing? I'm surfing and playing with some new online tools. Like Squidoo. Have you seen this? It's like a forum for people to share their interests. So I created a Squidoo lens (basically a page) on knitting.

Check it out: http://www.squidoo.com/nutsaboutknitting

There are also a few knitting groups on Squidoo, which you can join and add your lens to. However, it doesn't match up to Ravelry, which I've also been spending a lot of time in today.

See you surfettes - I'm heading back out to Cyberspace!