I thought about calling this post ‘Ripping back a Firefly’ but that sounded too violent in my head. I’ve been working on my Firefly Socks from A Knitter’s Book of Socks (when I can stand the idea of wool between my fingers in this weather). I’m done with the first, and was up to the gusset decreases on the second when I realized they weren’t quite matching up. Somehow I didn’t start the heel flap in the same point on the pattern round as the other sock and they didn’t match. Normally, I wouldn’t give much of a fig about that, especially considering that I used a self-striping yarn that obscures the pattern anyway, but in this case I had to rip it back. I also realized I had way too many stitches for that point in the pattern, and who knows how that happened. Considering it’s my work knitting, and I’m usually thinking of a half dozen other things while working on them, that probably created the problem. Oh, well. On we go.