Come On!!

Hurry up and knit, knit, knit. I really want to finish these up so I can start knitting one of my painted yarns up. But first a story . . .

Once upon a time there was a mediocre knitter who decided to knit two socks at once on circular needles. She liked uniformity, so she center pulled each ball of yarn, and pulled and pulled and pulled, until she matched the toe colors. Then she started knitting. Low and behold! The patterns did not match. She was devastated. She cried. She broke things. (Not really, but a story needs drama.)

She decided to keep knitting and not care a whit about the non-matching patterns. And then one day, she completed the pattern repeat on the socks. And what do you think that poor knitter discovered? The balls were wound from opposite ends of the pattern repeat by the manufacturer! So, it wasn't her mediocre knitting skills that made her not able to match up the patterns! However, despite the horror of the non-matching pattern, she decided that she quite liked them and would just continue on as is.