Laws of Sock Physics...

So anyone who has read Yarn Harlot knows about the knitting "Black hole", where you knit and knit and knit and your knitting does not get bigger. I have wondered if this is a phenomenon related to the socks disappearing in the laundry and somehow via a wormhole in the space-time continuum turning into wire hangers in the closet, or pens in the junk drawer. I think I have accumulated some more evidence of this.

Observe, after 48 short hours:



Beach has made astounding progress, for being a very complicated, lacey pattern involving two large charts. Here it is with my arm (not leg) in it, to illustrate the pattern:



And check out the seashell motif - it repeats 3 times around the cuff, but Megan also worked it into the heel!



Now, I have spent about the same amount of time on the Grasshopper socks as on Beach. And if you want to see how far they've come, well - look at the post a couple days back. The appear to be no closer to my knees despite more hours of knitting.

SO - I am coming to the conclusion that the phenomenon of missing socks in the dryer recurring as tangled hangers and pens has a corollary in that those yarnovers and K2togs on the Grasshoppers are in fact transitting the same wormhole and adding to the YOs and K2togs on the Beach. It's the only way I could have produced that much sock that fast, ALL my knitting time went to only one sock. That's gotta be it.

Happy Canada Day, anyway, everyone. I'm going to head up to my roof tonight to see if I can see the fireworks from 3 km north at Columbia Lake.