So, I am making these socks for my boyfriend (he is amazing and I suspect it would disgust most anyone reading this if I were to wax poetic about how great I think he is, so I won't) from yarn he picked out. I would not have picked this stuff for him, but he likes more color than I realized. And it is very pretty and nice to work with (see? I am starting on how great he is again).
Anyway, I have these two matching skeins that are dyed by a computer, started them together, exactly the same....
And yet, my socks do not match....
I can't tell you how many times I thought I counted the stitches on each sock to make sure I had the same number. Turns out, if you keep counting the same sock over and over, that does not, in fact, help you figure out that you have different numbers of stitches on the back of your two socks. Who knew?
Ah, hubris, my old friend....
Lucky for me, he says he likes them this way. We'll see what happens now that I have added a stitch to the back side of the short sock and will correct the stitch count when I am finished with the heels.
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