{"id":518,"date":"2006-04-24T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-04-24T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T09:47:06","slug":"518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve lost my knitting mojo!
\nAnd I don’t know where to find it.
\nOn Friday night I finished the second sock. I don’t have a pic yet, because I wore them immediately, and now they’re in the wash basket.
\nEmily had a dance event all weekend, so I needed something portable, and something that didn’t require a great deal of thought.
\nSocks are perfect. Small, relatively easy. And I’ve been on a sock roll of late.
\nI have too much sock yarn.
\nI’m spoiled for choice. I’m like a kid in a candy store. My eyes go wide and I can’t make a decision. However, I finally decided that I wanted to make the Sixth Sense Socks, which is the latest sock from the Six Sox Knitalong<\/a>. Then I picked out some Twinkletoes sock yarn, from this<\/a> store on eBay. I got the sock started, and ignored the fact that I wasn’t enjoying the yarn. After an inch or so, I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I didn’t like the yarn.
\nThe sock yarn I dyed up was nice and soft, and this yarn isn’t.
\nI just knew that if I kept on knitting blindly, I would end up not wearing the socks, or not knitting a second sock. So I ripped it out.
\nThen I went back to contemplating the sock stash.
\nI didn’t want to knit plain stocking stitch socks, so that kinda ruled out the Fair Isle patterning yarns, with which I only really have had success with plain socks.
\nI got out my lucious Socks That Rock.
\nAnd couldn’t find a pattern I liked for it. Nothing worked out. It feels thicker than normal sock yarn to me. (Well, at least the ones i’ve been using) even though the label recommends the same needles and gauge.
\nI don’t want to knit Jaywalkers. Even though I like them, I have no ankles, and I’ve heard there can be difficulties in fit.
\nSeriously, my legs join straight on to my feet, with no shaping whatsoever.
\nSo I dumped the Socks That Rock, mostly because I was running out of time.
\nIn the end, I took no knitting with me on Saturday.
\nSaturday night I tried again.
\nStill no luck.
\nOn Sunday, I ended up taking a glove pattern and yarn with me, out of sheer desperation, but didn’t end up knitting anyway.
\nLast night I tried something different. I had got some Cascade 220 from Yarns Online<\/a> with the intention of knitting a hat and scarf for Emily. So I sat down last night and tried to get what was in my head into a workable pattern.
\nNot happening.
\nI have lost my knitting mojo.
\nI have nothing on the needles.
\nI am almost in panic mode.
\nMind you, the pink cardi is still unseamed.
\nI picked up my shawl and ribbon from the Easter Show today.
\n

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\nOh, and I guess you could say Em did pretty well at the dance comp.
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\n8 trophies, 3 medals which intepreted mans that she placed every single dance she competed. 1 fifth, 1 third, 7 seconds and 3 firsts.
\nYay, Em!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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