Tale of One Heal

There was once a knitter who, after a mere two and a half hours of restless sleep, boarded a plane for a five a.m. flight and took out the sock she was working on. Oh how the knitter was enjoying this sock. The pattern was simple, the stripes were lovely and engaging. Happiness and contentment settled over her knitterly heart.

This knitter was known far and wide for her obsessive tendencies. In the case of stripes, well, they simply must match. As she worked around the heel it suddenly and shockingly occured to her that after knitting the heel the striping sequence down the front of the sock would be interrupted. An issue to be sure, but she continued knitting away, figuring that bridge would be crossed when she came to it. So, when the heel was completed and it was time to begin working the sock around again, this is what she had:

Oh, very pleased was this knitter with the heal. She especially like the way the dark green stripe met on the turn, a complete product of providence. The blue stripe? Something to be lived with, but under the heel, so who would notice? Well, this knitter for one. (Please ignore that row that looks as though the knitter may have knitted where she should have purled. Remember, 5 a.m. flight.) Thinking it through she deduced that she would have to find the place in the yarn where the second light green stripe repeat occured and begin knitting there. But wait! Pulling out the blue stripe on the heel and reworking it from the first light green stripe in the repeat........ Ooooh, wouldn't that be pretty? (Readers should know that at this point the knitter's camera was not available to her. Meaning, to provide this photo essay of the process she had to wait to photograph, wait to tink back the heel, wait to reknit, fly without knitting. The things some knitters will do for the blog! Of course she was operating on that inhumanly small amount of sleep. Waiting probably kept her from making countless errors. She took a nap.) The camera was procured during a short layover and the festivities continued. She pulled the heel back, and before her sunscreen could run out this is what she ended up with:

What cannot be adequately related here is the calming feeling that whooshed over this knitter at the sight of the reworked heel. The anxiety that preceded it wasn't completely realized until she had something to contrast it to. Ahhhhh. A lifetime of nudginess everytime she looked at this pair of socks had been averted. Now.........will the second sock be an identical twin? I think I hear her heart beating a little faster again.

***If anyone can help me find out who is stealing bandwidth from me, it would be appreciated.  I tried to change the image names, but I am not sure that it helped.  I could just remove those files, which I am seriously considering.  UGH!

Comments

[Margene]

BEAUTIFUL! How do you know someone is linking to your pix? I think I have the same problem.

[claudia]

I can always count on you for obsessive stripe matching. All is right with the world.

;-)

[Laurie]

Wow, you are so right that the second working of the sock is different, and, well, just RIGHT. I also echo Margene's question: how can you tell? And how can you tell what is being hotlinked?

[Cassie]

Very... nice obsessive stripes. Lovely. I'm sure I'd have done the same thing myself. Yep.

[Debi]

Hi T, happy anniversary! The sock looks great!! You are such a perfectionist but in a good way, hehe...

I recently had to do google search for just this topic, bandwidth theft! This is the only link I saved:
http://www.tipz.net/Bandwidth.htm
but if you do a search, I came up with a ton of hits!

Of course I have no idea what they mean :)

You know, Kerstin from At My Knits End recently had a problem with bandwith theft so maybe pick her brain for some resources?

Hope this helps!

Debi

[Carole]

Love the sock and the stripes! Obsession can be a good thing when the results are this beautiful.

[stephanie]

I feel better too. I'm so glad you changed it...what a relief.
(and I am absolulely serious.)

[Nancyn]

I couldn't figure out what the big deal was until I saw your re-worked sock - smart move that will surely bring you moments of peace and happiness. (I'm absolutely serious too -- we knitters understand obsession!)

[Caryn]

OK fellow typepad user, how do you know if someone is stealing your bandwith? I've often wondered how you figure that out when using a service...

BTW, I love the socks! Great color!!

[Pubah]

You may already be aware of this, but Kerstin had a long post some months ago about bandwidth theft, along with some links to solutions. Best of luck with it.