Neglected Knitting Syndrome

Quite a long time ago, I started a sock. I can’t even remember when it was exactly, I think on a last day of a visit to Israel to have something to knit on the very long flight from Israel to Arizona. When I arrived back home, I moved to other projects, I can’t tell you why, and the poor neglected sock was waiting patiently in his project bag, hoping I will get back to it one of these days and I did!

A few days ago, after finishing the Noro socks, I looked for a portable knitting I can knit in the car and picked up the sock. I gave it a quick look and started knitting happily.

After a few rows, I thought something looks weird, I gave it another quick look, decided I made a mistake ripped off a row or two and continued knitting happily.

When I reached the approximate length of the leg part, I started counting rows to have a nice round number so it will be easy to repeat for the second sock and from some reason, my counting did not make sense.  It took quite a few trials to realise I am not knitting the same stitch pattern now as I did when I started the sock.

What exactly did I do there?

What exactly did I do there?

I think I knitted one row all knit and one row 4k, 4p and moved the 4 sts by 2 every 6th row but I am not completely sure!
Now I am knitting 4k, 4p and I move it by 2 every third row.

Hmmm,,, is it a design idea or just an ugly mistake?

Hmmm,,, is it a design idea or just an ugly mistake?

Now the question is, do I leave it as is and call it a design element, or do I rip off and start over? The close up photo make me lean towards the second choice, what do you think?

And I told myself yet again:  when you knit from your head, you better write down what you do especially if you decide to leave the project to brew for awhile!

Before you go away, I have a request:
My friend Jocelyn is conducting a research project about us knitters and she needs your help, so if you have about 20 minutes will you go and fill in her survey? and can you please be kind and spread the word about this on your blogs so she can have some real high number of knitters helping her? as my little blog here will not be able to help much in that respect I am afraid.

Cherries and Some Knitting

Almost 2 weeks ago, on our way back from Niagara Falls, we stumbled upon  D.Smith&Son Two Century Farm – a Pick Your Own (PYO) cherries place that was still open, although it was quite late in the evening. We met a lovely girl, Elissa, who very politely told us that actually they are closed but as we are there already we can pick sour cherries there and black cherries, she will show us where, when we finish with the sour ones! While she was talking with us her grandmother appeared very apologetic, she forgot to close the gate, it is all her fault that we are there, but she hopes we will enjoy what we will get if we are already there (very nice family).

We picked quite a few kilograms of these:

Hmmm,,, Lovely Cherries

Hmmm,,, Lovely Sour Cherries

And some more Kilograms of those:

Yummy Black Cherries

Yummy Black Cherries

I wanted the sour cherries to try and recreate something that is a very sweet childhood memory: Vishniak – a cherry liquor my parents used to make when I was very young. I remember the demijohn standing on top of their closet in the bedroom and some very delicious cherries that came out of it and were given in very small portions and only for special occasions.

After consulting the internet and finding many recipes and advice (some quite contradictory to each other) we set on making our version:

Sam was the Demijohn Washer

Sam was the Demijohn Washer

The cherries were carefully washed:

The cherries are getting ready

The cherries are getting ready

We put them in the demijohn:

Oh Lonely Cherry

Oh Lonely Cherry

Then we added quite a lot of sugar and the strongest Polish Vodka we could find and got this:

What's inside our demijohn?

What's inside our demijohn?

Now we can only swirl the demijohn from time to time and wait and wait and wait,,,,

In a few months I will let you know how it turned out!

And I will have to show you the products of the sweet black cherries some other day as this post is becoming too long and I still have to show you some FOs!

Yes, I finished the Simple V Neck Sweater and two pairs of Noro socks in time to gift them to my sweetheart for his birthday:

Aren't they lovely?

Aren't they lovely?

Those are going to keep his toes nice and warm in the Canadian winter

Those are going to keep his toes nice and warm in the Canadian winter

A better view of the Noro similar socks

A better view of the Noro similar socks

How come those came out so different? I only changed the heel!

How come those came out so different? I only changed the heel!

Assortment of Noro Socks and a tip of a Sweater

Assortment of Noro Socks and a tip of a Sweater

The wonders of Noro yarn, the first pair has almost identical socks the second 2 quite different ones. I only changed the rib from 2×2 to 3×2 and the heel, go tell!

I Do Knit

Seriously!

Latest FOs waiting for their spay treatment

Latest FOs waiting for their spay treatment

Saki sneaked into the frame and is acting all innocent as usual:

The Socks and the Cat

The Socks and the Cat

And this lonely sock is waiting for his mate:

A Lonely Sock

A Lonely Sock

who is still in the yarn state.

And the Ulmus II is all ready to be washed and blocked too:

Ulmus II all ready for its spa treatment

Ulmus II all ready for its spa treatment

The light edge was not a choice but a yarn shortage must, I think I like it though. I am waiting to see it blocked before I will take my final  decision on this issue.