Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

See that? That’s a sock. Just a plain, ordinary 3X1 ribbed sock for Dale. And yet – it’s kicking my ass. I swear, I knit around and around and around on this thing and it just simply refuses to grow. The other day I measured, knit for an hour, measured again and it was shorter. I am not kidding.

Truly, this sock is the black hole of sock knitting.

I can hear you laughing, you know. Stop that. This is serious.

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  3. Is Mason frogging back and quickly putting the needles back in when your back is turned? 😉 *snicker*

  5. I have had yarn for another pair of socks for my son sitting in the stash for over a year and just can’t bring myself to cast on for this very reason. The sad thing is, the kid really loves handknit socks.

  6. Laughing, yup. Quit stretching the damn thing when you measure, grrl. And keep it away from the lace, so it doesn’t get more shrinking ideas.

  9. That is because you don’t really want to knit it. Brown socks just don’t float your boat. Tell him to pick a color YOU like.

  13. Maybe his foot is growing. Or he doesn’t really want the sock and rips it our when you’re not watching. Just sayin’…..

  14. I am working on a sock – your favorite picot edge plain stockinette sock – and it has the same problem. Maybe we need to give them socks some growth hormones.

  15. I think men’s socks are like that in general. Especially if they have long feet. Don’t remind me that my dad’s socks probably won’t be a Christmas present this year. It’s ok though, his birthday is in March, it’s not that far off. 😉

  17. I know what you mean! I am on my third man pair in a month and still have two pair to go. They never seem to grow. I’m saving the largest until last and it will take forever, a size 15 foot.

  18. Ken wants some new socks ……..um, once a sales clerk told him he had oar paddles for feet. (that didn’t go over to good, btw).

    can see knitting socks for him being a black hole too…

  20. The black hole of socks has been well documented by the Yarn Harlot. However, it was known to hover over Toronto. It must have blown down to you by the Canadian Clipper cold front that came through.

    Just keep knitting, it’s supposed to be warmer tomorrow. Perhaps the black hole of socks can’t tolerate southern weather?

  23. I think we must be traveling in the same time warp, I too started a pair of man’s socks (we’ll see if we get that far, a pair hah!) and it is taking FOREVER, have barely made any progress. I’m trying to think of any excuse to drop this dreaded project, maybe the sock would be better in another yarn such as Lorna’s Laces, he has a large foot and this is never going to end. Oh I long to get back to a cowl (I love the instant gratification). I will slyly ask him if he likes the yarn, perhaps there is hope yet and I’ll have to shop for something else and thicker yarn that will knit up faster.

  24. I guess that black hole thing will let me off the hook for Hubby’s Christmas present of socks – besides I have a quilt to finish!

  27. (I love Chris’s comment.) You have my sympathy. To divert you, have you seen the new Berroco Sox Metallic? I’m warming up the charge card right now.

  28. I too love Chris’s comment, and am starting a sock immediately to see if I can take advantage of this.

    (This is why I put cables in all my socks. The sock knows it can’t pull those cute tricks on me when I can see the cable growing.)

  29. After Chris’s comment, I think I need to go check my own mansocks-in-progress (3×3 rib)…perhaps they’ve gotten longer since I put them down!

  33. The only thing you can count on is that when you come out of the other side of the black hole, knitting will seem to just FLY off your needles. (In a good way.)

  35. That happened to me, too, when I knit my husband a pair of beaded rib socks (no, the bead is not a bead, but a stitch). It felt like they took 6 weeks. As opposed to the stockinette socks which I just finished in 1 week. Maybe we should knit the patterned socks for ourselves only.

  36. *stifling laughter*

    Ahem.

    Hey, I shouldn’t laugh…I go my arse kicked by a STOCKINETTE sock…and not just in a “this isn’t growing” way, but in a “I totally screwed this up” way. Talk about embarrassing….

  38. You know, if we could get physicists interested in this bending of the space-time-fiber continuum, it seems like there would be grant money in it somewhere.

  40. LMAO. I started a gauge swatch the other night on size 9 needles. Measured 18.5 stitches over 4 inches. I decided I wanted a tighter fabric, so I went down to a size 7 needle.

    Measured again. 18 stitches over 4 inches. ?????

  43. It’s happening to me on a sweater. No one in my family believes me, they think I am nuts, but I know better, just like you do!

  44. Are you remembering to bring your knees in tight?

    Ya know, I think Dale would like some house socks made out of a nice worsted weight yarn. I’m just sayin’…

    And I do feel your pain. I’m knitting the same socks and it’s taken my will to live. xo

  48. LOL – it was shorter? I think you need to make him socks from at least DK weight yarn from now on!!!

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