Two Stitches forward Ten Rows back
My mother was a beautiful needlewoman; a perfectionist who always produced beautiful work especially with hand knitted garments and she produced some beautiful Aram garments for nearly every member of the family. She always had something on the needles. However she lost patience with me and knitting. I am a slow learner, I have to get it in my noodle and re-arrange the furniture upstairs so I understand what I am doing and my parameters before I am able to do anything successfully. Sometimes things are painfully slow. However life itself is a learning curve so why not a little bit more for my plate than buying a knitting kit. Most of you long term readers will know by now that knitting is one of my nemesis; it is not that I cannot knit, its I become bored with things and much prefer crochet which grows a lot more quickly. However that aside, I have always wanted to knit myself a pair of socks not just any pair of socks though a pair of socks with cable...