K-K-K-Komet is K-K-K-Killing me!

For those of you who do not knit, Komet is a sock pattern and I always name my socks for filing purposes. The name for this pair came from the old, old song, K-K-K-Katie, which I loved as a little girl. That whole alliteration thing and all!

If you are not a knitter, feel free to leave now as this will bore you to tears.

I cast on these lovely brown socks on October 5, so as to qualify for the Sock a Month KAL and I am knitting them in the Komet pattern, which is by the designer of the month for the Sock Knitters Anonymous KAL, thereby killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. I then proceded to put them aside and knit a pair of slippers for Reese, a pair of socks for David, and a gorgeous pink sweater for Reese. (See previous post for pics) So on Friday I pick up the socks and start to knit them. I am not sure is they were ticked off at me for being left alone or what, but.......

First thing, I crossed the cables backwards and didn't notice till the next time which was 14 rows into the sock and so I decide just to remember and do the opposite for the rest of the sock. No problem, right? Well, anyone who reads my blog knows I have knit lots of socks, easy patterns, really hard patterns. Some drop dead gorgeous socks. And this is a relatively easy pattern, the pattern repeats 3 times in each row and then 28 rows of pattern. But it is a simple 28 rows, and should not be causing me all this grief. I have tinked back at least 5 times, because I did something stupid, like putting the right cable in the wrong place at least 3 times! Grrrrr! I truly am concentrating and still screw up.

So I finally, and with a huge sigh of relief, got to the heel and decided to do the short row heel as described in the pattern. Start the heel and realize the misprint in the pattern should read, leave the last cables uncrossed, not to even the last cables and had to tink back to uncross the cables in that row. I then did the short row heel again to the point where I knew it was really going to be wrong and frogged back to the heel again. Started over with my usual heel flap/ gusset heel, knit that and had just picked up the gusset stitches on the right side and started knitting across the front in pattern and realized ..... I was meant to only leave the cable on the heel uncrossed, not the ones on the top of the sock. *&$!@*%!!

By this time it was 12:30 a.m. and the Tampa Bay Rays were losing and I was going out of my mind. So I very carefully dropped the 9 stitches used in the cable and managed, I think, to get them picked up properly and crossed them. Then I went on to the next cable and did the same thing.

Then the Rays lost and I went to bed and have not looked at the socks since. I figure by this point I have at least knit one whole sock and part of another and only have up to the heel to show for it! When I am brave enough to go and pick up my sock later today and look at it, I cannot guarantee what, if all is not well in Kometland, may happen to it.

I have visions of scissors in my head!