Garter Waves sock

So way back when I first got into knitting I bought The Sock Knitter's Workshop by Ewa Jostes and Stephanie van der Linden. Loved the pictures and the incredibly detailed step-by-step instructions. I liked everything about the book except that I couldn't manage the dpns,  the ribbing took forever and I gave up in frustration. The book collected dust on my book shelf, but with all the lovely new yarn I have (still not done winding it all into balls, I think I need to look into getting a ball winder and yarn swift) I decided to try out one of the patterns. I chose the Garter Wave sock. 

When I'm about to knit a pattern, I copy it into a notebook so I can keep the original pattern nice and clean, as I like to make notes and keep track of stitch counts etc. I copied the Garter Wave sock and part of the pattern stuck out to me, but I figured I must have been reading it wrong. I cast on, did the 6 rows of garter stitch and bam! Problem. Row 1: yo, k3, k3tog psso, k3, yo, k1. Huh? How can I psso when there are no slipped stitches? I did a search for pattern errata, because I do not trust my skill in guessing or substituting the stitches that should replace the k3tog psso...apparently the book was translated from German, and some of it didn't translate well. Ravelry had some forum posts about the issue and some people suggested just doing the K3tog, but someone else suggested doing a S2KP (slip 2 stitches, k1, pass slipped stitches over) which I think will look nicer and be easier on the needles than a K3tog.


And yes, I'm still working on the plain sock made with the Heritage Silk Paints yarn-I'm just going to refer to them as my Celtic socks since that is the name of the colourway. I'm about half way through decreasing the gusset round.

Celtic sock on my pretty cheep project bag.

And a picture of the start of the Garter Waves sock (which I'm knitting on my new karbonz) plus a bonus picture of my winding-the-yarn set up (which is a kitchen chair)