Sock Curse

I never thought i would be the recipient of a curse. But it seems I am. A fully-fledged disabling Sock Curse.

The story so far...

I have some pretty German sock yarn. Tweed Sockengarn.

Looks innocent enough doesn't it?

I have a pattern. From Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks.

I've started the Fancy Silk Sock but this is all I have to show after casting on and working the cuff 6 times

I've prayed to all relevant deities, and made the appropriate offerings. At this stage it seems I have displeased the Knitting Deities....and I suspect it has

something to do with the weird things the magpies were doing in the garden yesterday. I know it's a crappy photo (I was taking it through the flyscreen) but I think

you can see the bird and it's suspicious behaviour if you look carefully

if that's not an Accursed behaviour then I don't know what is.