So long, Sideways 0_0

I was so psyched to knit those sidewinders, let me tell you. But with only a quarter of the sock until seaming, I frogged. Yes-sir-eee . . . rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. There was just too much disatisfaction.

1. I hated the needle I was using---a cheapie circular, which I couldn't slip any of the stitches over the cable joint. Makes for laborious knitting.
2. I loved the whole process and pattern, watching the sock construction emerge. I hated the way my increases and decreases looked. And no matter what I did, they didn't look better.
3. I was always a stitch or 2 off, and I have no idea why.
4. I loved the yarn, and kept having this nagging thought--I could be doing a better job with this yarn.
   

I think that when your level of disatisfaction gets to 3, it is time to rethink. And I don't always abandon, however with so many other good things to knit, this needed to go to the pond. Riiiiiiibbbbbbbbbbbbbbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Stop Everything and Go . . .

Sideways!
Nona's sharing her Sidewinders sock pattern in 5 installments, and I couldn't resist (even though I have 3 pairs of socks going right now!). I dug out Scout's Marina Piccola and a size 1 circular and got knitting. I was supposed to do a swatch, but I didn't . . . I have knit with this yarn, on size 1's before, so I was pretty confident about my gauge.