Finish AND Frog It Friday?

Contemplating this post yesterday I figured I would be showing y'all an in progress sock with a little story about how I rarely succumb to second sock syndrome.  I was going to write about how I am usually motivated enough to finish both socks in a row, even if they are not the primary project of the moment.  Then I was going to show this pair of socks, the first one knitted back in the spring of 2007 (I think), started on my way out the door to a school concert where I needed some plain, able to knit in the dark, stockinette stitch.  Then I was going explain that occasionally I can be in the middle of the pair of socks and other things become priorities. New babies, contract knitting, birthdays, sick friends, whatever, all conspire to get in the way and the sock may be forgotten until searching through the stash for something and it pops to the surface as it patiently waits its turn for my attention. 

Having taken this sock out last week to demonstrate the short row heel and toe for a student in one of my knitting classes, I had knit the foot and rounded to the cuff and thought it would be the perfect knitting for a day in Boston with my mom.  At that time I figured I would be posting a partially finished cuff and proof that I was "finishing" not "frogging" for Finish or Frog It Friday.  Things being what they were, and hours longer in the hospital than anticipated, I actually finished the sock!  Who knew!? 

Aren't the stripes pretty?

Unfortunately, the story does not end there.  Once upon a time I posted about my own personal version of Second Sock Syndrome. (That last one has two of my favorite-to-this-day pairs of socks in it.)  It has little to do with not finishing a pair of socks and more to do with my inability to knit a second sock at the same gauge as my first sock.  Drives.Me.CRAZY!!!!!! 

These two sock cuffs are the same number of rows.  While I was willing to live with the striping being different on the cuffs (even though I like the second one better-not that it matters, once they are on my legs you can't even see the striping, they aren't that pretty on as they are off), I don't know if I can live with a difference of almost an inch in the length.  There is a part of me that wants to work the EZ sewn bind off and call it a day, but this little niggling voice in my head is telling me I might not be able to live with that.  UGH.  To be me.  It isn't always easy.  So Finish and Frog It may be the story of this day.

And just because this gave me a little giggle:

My little argyle ball of yarn.  Hee.

Thirty-eight.  Sigh.  Maybe I'll mark these as finished by next week.

Comments

[CyndiG]

That would drive me crazy too. But I'm not sure I would be able to frog it and do over. Why do socks do that???

[Manise]

Heee- love the argyle on your center pull ball! It's there to make you smile after the frogging.

[margene]

The tablecloth and napkins you use as a back crop is so cool (and so you)!
Why DO socks do that from the same ball of yarn. At least rewinding was entertaining.

[Carole]

I've never been a victim of second sock syndrome, either. Maybe you shouldn't count rows and just go by the measurement?

[Marcia]

Right now I'm experiencing First Sock Syndrome....I have two different pairs started somewhere in this house! LOVE your argyle ball of yarn...too funny!

[claudia]

I'd expect nothing less from you.

[Lisa McGuire]

I'm sorry, I wish I can be of some help...I'm working on the first sock of my second pair and feel I've many years of sock-knitting experience to gain before I can even think of something that would make a difference. My first pair of socks suffered similarly, but in my innocence/ignorance I plodded through and have really grown to love my very slightly mismatched socks. When worn no one cannot tell the difference. Hold up, maybe it's not your socks...have your feet changed recently? :) That argyle yarn is amazing! :)