So I put The Sock off for a while. My screwup is irritating, and once I showed it to A, novice knitter that she is, I knew it was impossible to continue without starting over. I don’t like to start over. At all. I mean, I’m sure nobody likes to start over, but I think I have a mild phobia of it. So The Sock is on the dining table, and in its place I picked up two balls of Twilley’s Freedom Wool and started on a scarf.

My mistake. You see, two balls of Freedom wool is not enough. I’m almost halfway through the first ball, and I’ve only got something like, 7-8″ of scarf. Granted, I am not doing garter stitch or even stockinette, but this is a drag. I fear I’m gonna end up with this skimpy assed scarf that barely fits around my neck. So I might have to start over on IT too. Did I somehow offend the knitting gods or what? I’m thinking about ripping it out and skinnifying it by a couple stitches to see what that does. It’d take an inch off the width and maybe give me a bit more length. Though I’m also second-guessing my pattern, bamboo stitch. With this fat wool, it’s rather dense. So maybe I’ll pick up my big fat needles and just do something lame like… garter stitch, with some lacey yarn-overs or something. I dunno.

I’ll definitely be using some different needles, however, because… these beautiful size 11 bamboo ones that I JUST got for Christmas are…. cracked. I was incredibly disappointed. I’ve emailed Clover, but if they don’t respond or help me out here, I’m gonna have to call my aunt who gave them to me and explain the situation and see what yarn shop she went to and call THEM. Hopefully I can avoid that by talking to Clover, though. I’d hate to tell her that she bought me a defective product.

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