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The time has come for me to post my first blog. Kaylee and Rachel have been nagging me to start my own blog forever. They seem to think funny things happen to me all the time and that I should be writing them for the world to read. Now that I am apart of this online knit Wits club I figured it was time to make my debut and post my most infamous knitting disaster.

I had decided that I was going to knit Jon and myself Christmas stockings instead of buying a pair. I asked my sister Rachel, if she could come up with a pattern for me. Those of you who knit, know that patterns are written in what seems to be a totally different language and for someone who isn’t familiar with the lingo; it’s easy to make mistakes. Let me just say here, that I don’t have very much experience knitting. My projects are few and far between. I swear I forget how to cast on every time I start a new one and most of them never get finished. So in the beginning I was asking Rachel a million questions just to make sure that I didn’t make some huge mistake and have to rip the whole thing out. As I made my way through the pattern I became more and more confident and dare I say a little too sure of myself……big mistake.

The night of our knit wits group I was sitting next to Rachel and Jessie on the couch knitting and chatting like usual. On this particular night I was planning to finish stocking number one and I was beyond excited. I just wanted to get it done so could have the finished product. As I was nearing the end of the pattern I asked Rachel for help to finish the toe and I held up my stocking to show her where I was. As I held it I noticed that something was drastically wrong. I grabbed the pattern and started scanning it to figure out what had happened. I was just sure that Rachel had messed up the pattern and that was why my stocking looked funny. Then I found it. The step I had missed. In my haste to finish I skipped over the step that was the middle of the foot (40 rows). I had knit the heel and went straight into knitting the toe. My stocking now resembled a Chinese woman’s foot that had been bound. Rachel started laughing hysterically and held up my stocking to show Kaylee and Jessie what I had done. Of course everyone was crying they were laughing so hard and Kaylee thought it would be a great idea to take some pictures to capture my embarrassment forever.

This is what Chinese Foot Binding looks like.