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When I knit a sock, I want the pattern to shout “look at me!” I want the yarn and the pattern to coexist in a perfect state of harmony. Unfortunately that seems to be too much to ask of my latest sock project.
The pattern is Marina Piccolo in the yarn Artyarns Ultramerino 4, color number 108.
It’s not that I don’t love the pattern. It’s not that I don’t love the yarn. The two together? No. Not so much. All I hear from this sock is “busy, busy, busy.”
Actually, I don’t really think they look all that horrible together. It’s just that I know that the pattern would look so much better in a different yarn and that the yarn is probably crying to be knit in a different pattern. Except my brain has been in such a fog lately that I can’t seem to get the right mix of pattern and yarn together to save my life.
Another problem is that I don’t hate it enough to frog it all just yet. I don’t love it enough to want to knit much on it either. It’s been languishing for the past two days in my work basket and I haven’t had the urge to pick it up.
Are my expectations too high? Is this a perfectly acceptable sock and I’m just not seeing it? Or do you all agree that this just is not working? Is my whining grating on your nerves yet?
I think it’s time to put the socks down, find something else to knit, and take deep calming breaths.
