Wednesday WIPs: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

 

Clue One is finished and the MKAL looks like this now. It's not as impressive looking after being shoved onto a long cable needle. Clue Two started with picking up and knitting along the top edge. It's about 300 stitches. I had to rip that first row out when my count didn't add up. It wasn't as simple as just adding a stitch here or there because of the increases you make along the way. 

The top blue section could have been a fancy Brioche design but I tried it, ripped it out twice and then opted for the easier Knit and Slide modification that is offered. I feel like I wimped out on this detail but you can't learn Brioche over 300 plus stitches. It's too risky. Trust me.

The first Chestnut sleeve is finished and the second one started. It's hard to believe that this is what I consider to be mindless knitting these days. The MKAL really put everything into perspective. 

I wish I could say that the socks were smooth sailing but those ugly Hawthornes are not behaving. I can't get the colors to match up in the heel section and it's making be crazy. All the stitch counts are the same but the colors are not where they should be. There's been a lot of trial and error resulting in a lot of ripping back. Since the Hawthornes became too difficult for travel knitting, I cast on another pair from Arne and Carlos' new collection that thankfully, are doing everything they should. At the moment, anyway.