So I knit a pair of socks for TB. I carefully measured his ankle and instep and foot. I knew he preferred that the stripes match up fairly well, so I went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the randomly self-striping yarn striped similarly on both socks. My loathing of weaving in ends ensured that, while the sock knitting was officially completed on June 3, the ends were not woven in until last weekend.
If you look at the finished socks, you'll notice something funny. Despite my best efforts, the damn things still don't match! When I pointed this out to TB, he assured me that he liked them just fine. Whew!
What the pictures don't show is that the stupid socks in no way fit on his man-size feet, despite my measuring and pattern adjusting and added width and length. I had him try on the first sock, which he said fit nicely. However, upon trying on both finished socks (thousands and thousands of stitches after he had the opportunity to mention that the first one DID NOT FIT), they are clearly way too small.
I spent several hours pissily blaming him for this. I realize this is both illogical and unfair.
Then I thought a little more about the not-insignificant upside to the situation.
They fit me perfectly.
6 comments:
I don't get what the big deal is. The obvious solution is to shrink the size of bf's feet. Bind those suckers but good, and they'll fit into the socks by the first day of Hanukah.
They look gorgeous, and I think, Quinn's suggestion is entirely reasonable. Glad they'll fit you, though, because it's still good to have a back-up plan.
I still think it's his fault that they don't fit. ;) They look fabulous on you though.
Yay, another pair of socks for you! I'm sorry it didn't work out correctly-- do you have any idea what the problem was?
I'm totally cracking up. Because that sounds like something I would do.
Yay for unexpected socks!
First rule of knitted gifts: ALWAYS knit for people bigger than yourself so you have a fallback position!
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