Pomatomus socks March 23, 2006
As previously 
promised, I hereby provide status on my latest pair of socks, the Pomatomus from Knitty magazine.
For a while I thought these socks were going to beat me. I cast on and knit the ribbed portion of the cuff without problem, while completely loving the spring and loftiness of the STR yarn (lagoon). Then I got to the pattern stitch. It was coming out horribly. It just looked wrong. So after about five rounds I frogged it to the edge of the ribbing.
“Aha,” says I, the problem must be something left out of the directions. There must be a ribbed row between pattern rows, and they forgot to say anything about it. So, I knit merrily away, inserting a “blank” row between pattern rows. I got eleven (22 if you count the blank rows) rows into the pattern, compared it with the photo, and 
blanched. Nope. That’s definitely wrong. Oh, wait! I see. The instructions are just fine. It’s me. If I could just read a pattern correctly, I’d have it made. Doh.
I ripped it back to the last row of ribbing. Again. This time I had quite a pile of yarn. Fully confident with the information now in hand, I knit the first eleven rows. Looking pretty good. Knit up the next eleven rows. I’ve got it now. Check this out. Hey, Mikey, she’s doing it! And it looks so cool in that lovely STR yarn. Oooh.
Nicki March 23
Good for you, figuring it out!
That wool looks absolutely gorgeous!
Lnanaa March 23
I love how the colors are turning out.
Good thing you could figure out the problem.
patternnuts March 23
that pattern is so cool!
ami March 24
Seeing the things you knit totally makes me want to learn how to knit. Those socks are awesome!
TwistedCandles March 24
That is one cool looking sock, Laura!
Debi March 26
They *did* say that blue fish are cannibalistic, hee hee. That is going to be one beautiful sock!
Lina March 26
It DOES look very cool! I’ll have to check that pattern out myself
StitchCat March 27
Excellent looking socks Laura….found your blog…cool.
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