Now see, I gave up on the kitting and tried crochet. Made some cute flowers....
but right now I am trying to crochet wire. I saw some cool jewlery made that way.

Yes, but my knitty, socky friends:

Is there a way to avoid that ankle slouch? I thought my ankles were in good proportion to my foot and calf, but apparently they're super tiny. Is it the ribbing that creates that "80's slouch sock" look (but only at the ankle; above the ankle it's fine)? Is it just this pattern? Did I cast on too many stitches? Should I switch to size 00000 needles? I couldn't decide on a pattern last night, I cast on, and then unraveled after about 7 or 8 rows because now I'm unsure of sizing. Help!

lindyhop, I'm also working on a sampler afghan (also knitted) that is made in squares. The trouble is (and I might never have bought this book if I'd noticed this in the store) is that when each square is done, I have to crochet around the edges. It says to put 48 evenly spaced single crochets, but I'm too lazy to do the math, so I'm hoping it won't matter. Well, I've decided it won't matter. But I'm having trouble with guage with the crochet. I'm terribly inconsistent and it gets wobbly. My point with all this rambling? Um...I think crochet would be much harder for me.

Some sock patterns do nip in at the ankle, so you could try that. Sock patterns were made to be modified! I'll see if I can find info on how that works. I'm pretty sure I did that on my pseudo 16th century stockings.

The patterns in this book sortof require no funky decreases at the ankle, though. I'm afraid that would look weird.

BUT...it just occurred to me that there is no law against changing needle sizes in the middle of a sock. If there is such a law, someone should warn me ASAP.

Not only is there no such law, some people recommend it for the heels to make them more dense.

Hmmm. The heel isn't really the problem. (Or maybe it will be and I just don't know it yet--I take comfort in the fact that I know how to darn.)

I have some yarn with a bit of elastic in it. Maybe that will help. I may try the smaller needle on the ankle thing for the next pair. Or I'll just knit tighter.

I'm just saying that there are times that some people do recommend switching to smaller needles, so it's not too terribly weird.

My first big project was a bag pattern I found on one of the balls of yarn I had for something else. I had a lovely time with it but I was a little unclear about the instructions and they kept mentioning the number of stitches and what was that all about? Uh, well, I figured that out when the bag ended up in a rather freakish shape. I'm now a chastened and reformed stitch counter.

It's probably more important that the stitches are evenly spaced than how many there are. But I'm guessing. I'm still struggling with gauge. I was ten rows into my little sweater when I discovered the gauge was not like my practice sample and I was going to produce a muumuu instead. So I stopped at Michael's tonight to buy a little extra yarn so I can work on getting it right.

I almost bought a book today just because there were a couple of pages of flowers patterns, also cherries and leaves and a star. (A friend's daughter-in-law crocheted some sushi.)

Making jewelry with crochet sounds very cool. Is it hard working with wire?

I learned some cool knitting terms at the Pod's house.

FROGGING: undoing an entire project because you rip it rip it

TINK: To un-knit (Tink is Knit spelled backwards)