There's been nothing but silence from the Frog House, and for good reason. The Widdershins have broken me. After weeks of knitting, frogging, knitting, tinking, knitting, tinking, and frogging some more, I finally reached the end of my tether. I'm only barely able to talk about it. The wounds are still too fresh. I feel like a jilted lover, and I'd rather be crying into a cup of hot cocoa while watching Sense and Sensibility than reliving my pain.
In spite of all my care and caution (read: lifelines, measuring, and counting stitches like a Gringotts goblin would galleons), I still got bitten. I turned the heel only to find that these socks wouldn't fit my mother unless A) she's been secretly binding her feet for the last ten years, or B) I found a way to travel back in time and give them to her as a gift for her 5th birthday rather than her 50th. How the hell did this happen? I'm flummoxed. I followed that f'in pattern to the letter, and yet somehow things went terribly awry.
And now... I can't even bear to look at them. It took every ounce of my willpower not to set fire to the unfinished socks, needles and working yarn still attached. I might have even tossed in the pattern and Ziploc baggie for good measure.
Ever since the incident, I'm finding it difficult to be enthusiastic about knitting. I've worked a bit on my long-lost Mr. and Mrs. Dashing, but to no avail. My knitting heart is tender, and wonders if it can ever love again.
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I HAVE COMPLETE FAITH IN YOU, SNOOP FROG! i still say that you are a natural, and it's the sock pattern that sucks. it's the SOCKS that are to blame! not knitting in general! burn the suckers. go for it. let it be a new lease on your knitting life. let new beautiful projects arise from the flames of your burning widdershins!
Well, as the King Frog himself once said: it's not easy being green. And what I mean by that is, your knitting is too bee-youtiful for you to give up completely all because of one miserable pattern.
Drown your sorrows in a lovely, sweet Moscato, and move on to more knitta-friendly patterns!! There's a whole ocean out there, and countless fish in the sea!
/disengage breakup cliches
I think you need a knitervention and a lot of knitta luv! I feel ya sista, I do! You are too talented of a knitta to stop forever! I think a small easy project is in order to heal your sole?
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