This is how far along I got on my second Toe-up Eye of Partridge Heel sock before I realized that I’d done the toe wrong:

Usually when I increase, I use a kfb (knit front & back), and I tuck it one stitch in from the edges. In this case, I’d done them right at the edges, which was making a gapping, stiff, weirdly folding toe.

It just wouldn’t do. I thought about how much I’d worked on these already (through the entirety of Sense and Sensibility, at least!), but in the end I thought it wasn’t just a problem of mismatching, it was a structural deficiency, and I really couldn’t live with it.

Oh, what lovely frogging. And can you believe that I wound all this back up without a single knot, tangle, or snag?

Because the figure-8 cast-on is so truly effortless, I was back up and running in no time, and I’ve since surpassed this progress.

Speaking of colorful yarn spaghetti, I really enjoyed these photos of an as yet unmentioned project.

It gives me the sense of knitting as a hugely complex, tentacled monster which encroaches upon all order and normalcy. Or as perhaps an island of calm in a chaotic sea.

Thankfully, this project is going a lot smoother than one might expect from such thoughts.