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Apparently IVF clinic waiting rooms produce better knitted shoes than Dentist’s waiting rooms…

As much too small as the last one was too big…

I also considered just:

Arrgh…

This is what shoes one and two looked like on Wednesday night post washing (please forgive the crazy late night / bad light photography, would you believe this is what it looks like after colour correction). The cardigan and hat washed beautifully, if only they would dry. Shoe number two washed beautifully - seeming to come out the exact same size and shape it went in. Shoe number one, not so much. It came out not so much a shoe as a floppy mess. Apparently I am unnaturally relaxed about visiting dentists. So I ripped it out while it was still wet, all the better to get the crinkles out and start again.

Figuring that another visit to the IVF clinic waiting room was just what I needed to get a matching shoe I waited until this morning to knit the third shoe. And it is as much too small as the first one was too big, really. The difference is far larger than it appears in this photo.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Perhaps I will wait until after the clinic calls with today’s results before I decided on an appropriate response. If they still want to cancel my cycle I probably will cry. It’s been that sort of week.

The question is, should I try to block the third shoe bigger? Rip one of them, if so which one? I guess it would probably have to be the second shoe because I obviously won’t be able to get a bigger shoe from the yarn recycled from shoe number three. Perhaps I should break out my last untouched ball of yarn and keep knitting shoes until I get two that match? Of course the way this cycle is going there is always the chance that the shoes are just going to keep getting smaller and I will never get a matching pair. At least the baby isn’t due for a couple of weeks, it could take me that long at this rate.