Sock Schizophrenia

I spent quite a bit of the day today knitting on the fourth pair of in-progress socks that I had cast on.

Ribbed Ribbon socks after first pattern repeat on food

Pretty good, huh?  And yet I admit, I was extremely tempted to cast on a fifth pair for another KAL (knit-a-long) on Ravelry.


I will not cast on another pair of socks until I finish the pair for my friend.  I will NOT cast on another pair of socks until I finish the last 37 rows of the pair for my friend.  I WILL NOT CAST ON another pair of socks until I finish them!
So far it's worked, and I haven't cast on another pair.  But I WILL finish a pair this weekend, giving myself permission to cast on another pair.  It would be crazy to have five sock projects going at once, right?  Right?  But would it really be five???

See, of the four pairs in progress, the "Angee" sock has one done and the other isn't really started - not even cast on.  So can that really be counted as "in progress?"  I mean, come on, nothing is actually being worked since it hasn't even been cast on.  So it makes perfect sense to say that I am 100% done with one sock rather than 50% done with a pair.  The whole glass half-full vs. half-empty thing.  That second sock is a whole 'nother project, not even started, so it doesn't count.

That leaves me with three in progress.  With only 37 rows left in the second sock that's going to be given as a gift, I can pretty much count those as finished.  Just another couple of hours left, which I can whip out anytime.  Negligible.

The pink "I Heart Toe-Up Socks" pair is getting close to the heel, and has been put on the back burner while I work the "Ribbed Ribbon" socks for three - count 'em - three Ravelry KALs, each with potential prizes of yet more sock yarn.  (Unngghhhhh... *drool*)  So naturally I'll focus on those over the heart ones.  Both are two at a time (2AAT) on 47" size 0 needles by the same author and from the same book, so basically they are the same socks and should count as one combined project.

There you have it.  I have exactly one sock project in progress right now.  How's that for justification of adding yet another cast-on to the list?

No, no, no!  I will not cast on another pair of socks until I finish the pair for my friend.

I may be having some sock knitting schizophrenia.