Fixation socks and lace frustration

First, the good news! As promised, I have an FO to show!



Pattern: Pretty Comfy Socks - a birthday gift for my mom
Needles: size 3 dpns
Yarn: Cascade Fixation in color 5104
Time: very little, but I worked intermittently
Yarn left over: plenty to make another little something
Thoughts: It was a very easy, quick pattern. Except I messed up. I forgot to flip the page in the middle of the pattern, so I only did through row 13 or so, rather than through row 16 or so. It results in a little unevenness in the YOs, but I almost didn't notice it so I didn't fix it and just pretended the pattern was written differently! I love how fast things go on size 3s with Fixation. My mom loves the socks and says they fit just fine, which is nice to hear! Her feet are a tad longer than mine, so I made them a row or two longer than if for me. Plus, the yarn is stretchy, so I figured that if they fit me, they'd fit her! Finally, they were my first short-row heels. The first one didn't go so well, but the second one was a little cleaner. I enjoyed knitting the heels; fewer purls than with the heel flap and I find short rows rather fun. I'll have to do another short row heel to see what my heels make of them!

And now the bad news: Well, it's not really bad. Just frustrating. I spent a couple of hours unknitting lace last night. Not my idea of a fun way to spend an evening, but it's done, fixed, and looks the better for the effort.

Finally, the ugly news: it's raining out. The sky is grey. We were going to go for a nice walk along the canal this weekend, had the weather turned out, but it's been raining, misting, and drizzing non-stop. I've done a bit of exam prep work, but mostly I've been knitting and re-knitting the aforementioned lace frustration. The rain isn't conducive to much except knitting if you're me, sleeping if you're a fuzzy cat, and playing computer games if you're Coffeeboy. I'm going to try to do some more reading, but the yarn and the mist are conspiring against it.