I have discovered titles!
I have reached the heel of the second Regia Silk sock I'm knitting for He-Who-Shall-Not- Be- Named (from hereon to be referred to as HWSNBN). This stuff is so much fun to knit with, it is actually distracting me from the beginnings of the Rosebud shawl from Heirloom Knitting, but it won't last long, the socks will be done too quickly after the heel is turned ...
Of course, I will get some more of this stuff and make more socks, having convinced myself I really, really need more socks, or someone somewhere in the world needs more socks or perhaps there will be a severe sock shortage in the next few years?
The Rosebud is coming along, despite the distracting socks, and I've gotten about 30 rows done, and it's fun to see how different the lavender cobweb looks when knitted on needles a whole mm larger than the ones I used on the cobweb crepe shawl .. this is more like a lavender cloud right now - all fluffy and airy.
I think I have some sort of perceptual problem though - I seem to have a different sort of thinking when it comes to where motifs are divided in lace patterns. After a few repeats I generally move my stitch markers to where I think they should be, instead of where the pattern designer thinks they should go. The center pattern seemed to agree with my disordered thinking, until I get to alternating the next set of repeats, then my markers are all in the way ... so I've been removing them all on the plain knit row and shifting them 4 stiches left and now I am able to go on as if nothing has happened. It's probably all do to my inability to remember more than five things at once (no comments from anyone who knows me as to the indisputable fact that I have great difficulty remembering even 1 thing at a time :P)
Note to Self: you are knitting the socks on 2.5 mm needles and casting on 64 stiches for women's socks and 72 for men's.
Of course, I will get some more of this stuff and make more socks, having convinced myself I really, really need more socks, or someone somewhere in the world needs more socks or perhaps there will be a severe sock shortage in the next few years?
The Rosebud is coming along, despite the distracting socks, and I've gotten about 30 rows done, and it's fun to see how different the lavender cobweb looks when knitted on needles a whole mm larger than the ones I used on the cobweb crepe shawl .. this is more like a lavender cloud right now - all fluffy and airy.
I think I have some sort of perceptual problem though - I seem to have a different sort of thinking when it comes to where motifs are divided in lace patterns. After a few repeats I generally move my stitch markers to where I think they should be, instead of where the pattern designer thinks they should go. The center pattern seemed to agree with my disordered thinking, until I get to alternating the next set of repeats, then my markers are all in the way ... so I've been removing them all on the plain knit row and shifting them 4 stiches left and now I am able to go on as if nothing has happened. It's probably all do to my inability to remember more than five things at once (no comments from anyone who knows me as to the indisputable fact that I have great difficulty remembering even 1 thing at a time :P)
Note to Self: you are knitting the socks on 2.5 mm needles and casting on 64 stiches for women's socks and 72 for men's.
posted by Silverthyme | Monday, February 27, 2006
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