A Dilemma of the Crafting Kind

...So I broke my felting needles last week, the only two needles I had in my possession, which of course, made everything in that particular crafting department grind to a halt. Undeterred I promptly ordered replacements from the wonderful Wingham Wool Works

http://www.winghamwoolwork.co.uk

and decided to teach myself how to knit socks while I waited for them to arrive. Utterly serendipity I know, but, well, I had this spare wool kicking about in my yarn stash and found a pattern matching the wool type for sock knitting using two needles instead of the usual four, in the bargain bucket of my local wool shop, so figured it'd be as good as time as any to give it a go.

Which I did;



and am still in the process of doing as I type....using the wrong size needles naturally, as I forgot to check what I'd need when I bought the pattern. Anyway, that's neither here nor there - the thing is, I've got to the difficult bit; the part that requires seperating stitches on different stitch holders and shaping heels and whatnot, and ummmm, it's scary stuff! AND what's more my felting needles arrived this morning - twenty shiny new barbed needles with sharp pointy bits with which to stab myself and break willy nilly, so I'm in a bit of a dilemma what to do - do I continue to knit in martyr like fashion until I've sussed the ancient mystery that is sock knitting or resume felting and bleeding over my little stone runes? I think I'll go and make a cup of tea and ponder on it some more.....