Last night I knit the heel and started the ankle. My misgivings were growing, however, because Snicket had developed a bit of a slant.

This, I believe, was caused by having those nice neat cabled columns on one side, and none on the other. After knitting the lattice all around the ankle for ten or so rounds, I tried on the sock.

It was too big. Not just around the foot and ankle, but in length. I needed to frog back to a cm or so before the instep increases to fix the latter. But for the former I needed to go back to the toe.

I sat down and did some math, moving the lattice pattern so it was centred and reducing the stitches from 56 to 52. Then this morning the beau obligingly held the sock as I frogged. When I got to the toe… I just kept going.

All undone. After this I got out my ball winder and rewound the cake. It was a good task to do while considering my options. I could:

a) Restart Snicket with the same yarn.

b) Knit that lovely Diamante socks in the latest Knitty. I love the way this mahogany yarn looks on the knit side, but most of Snicket’s lattice pattern consists of purl stitches. Diamante is a soft, elegant cable pattern that is all knit stitches.

c) Restart Snicket in a different yarn.

d) Do b and then c

e) Do c and then b

f) Stop getting distracted and go work out that pattern for the toe-up version of the resolable socks.