Gideon's Court Sox, 10 months of Second Sock Syndrome

  I call these Gideon's Court Sox.

Why?

The socks are a present for Christy, who is my longtime Changeling friend, one of my best online friends for decades.  I love making socks for Christy, she is absolutely knitworthy.

Her character in the current Changeling game is Gideon, a Danaan Sidhe Knight.  A stately nobleman in the court of New Orleans.  His colors are black and silver.

I wanted to pick a sock that fit the character and would be appreciated by the player.  Something silver (I already had the perfect yarn!), something intricate and yet stately.

I picked Fledermaus by Cahoua Coffee.

I'm pretty adept at 1X1 cable crosses and KTBL.  I can cable without a cable needle and the way I knit (wrong) allows me to adjust the tension on the cables for a result I like.  So I thought "no probblem!"

HAH.

Ok, so this pattern DOES get a rest row on every even round.  

But this pattern IS NOT one I can memorize.  I am chained to the chart and the chart is focus intensive.

The sock contruction is straightforward - top down, heel flap and traditional gusset.  It's really the focus intensive chart that gets me every time.

I started these on September 24th 2022.  Finished the first sock for a HPKCHC quidditch match in November... and then immediately stuffed the yarn and the first sock in a project bag and left it sit there for months.

But 2023 is my year of erasing as many WIPs as possible.  So these socks are back on the needles.  Between work and family life is pretty stressful right now so these socks are NOT RELAXING.  But we're pushing through one row at a time.

They are, however, very, very pretty...

Looks like a noble sock, right?  Look at that lovely cable geometry!

Now - no diss on the pattern.  For as complicated as the chart is, the pattern is prefectly well written.  I'm not swearing at a poorly written pattern.  I'm swearing at my ability to read a very complicated chart.  Even with the nice little highlighter row thing that Knit Companion had, I still mis cross cables and have to go back and fix things.

I just turned the heel last night and I'm hoping that having only one side of cables and one side of flat will make this all go faster!