Slowed Down
Progress on the Baudelaire sock has slowed down a wee bit the last day or so, for several reasons, falling into two categories. Category one is Other Responsibilities - laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, general raising of children. Category tow is Technical Difficulties - the kind that involve knitting, ripping, knitting again, and yes, dear friends, ripping one more time. After turning the heel, the patterning changes to go all the way around the sock, incorporating a couple of cables at the sides. First there was a blunder of the "oops! I screwed up" variety. Then, I was doing fine till I tried the sock on again after a couple repeats and realized that I really should knit the directions for the "large instep" because I could barely squeeze it over my heel. So I ripped back to the top of the heel flap again and followed those directions, mostly with success.
Still, it is a whole new rhythm to learn, and with patterning all the way around the cuff, it made sense to switch from my beloved Pony Pearls to a long Addi Turbo and a Magic Loop type of technique. I've never read the actual Magic Loop directions, but my knitting looks something like this when I employ it.
Knitting thefat-anklelarge instep version of this pattern involves doing an interesting set of increases at the base of the cables, which is kind of cool looking, but somewhat challenging to execute. The one on the left side turned out great:
The one on the right side I am a little less confident of, but I have now ripped this section back three times, and I am not going to rip it back again, so help me. I will knit at least to this point on the second sock before the actual class starts in late summer so that I can teach it with confidence.
Now it's time to knit this puppy straight to the top! I bought yarn for Pomotomus this weekend, and it's beautiful stuff. You'll have to wait at least another day or so to see it. Neener Neener!
Oh, and I got an e-mail from my SP10 hostess asking us to post about our favorite current project. Hi, Shelby! I hope this little update counts. Just to recap, Baudelaire socks from Knitty Summer '06. Koigu P621. This is going to be a shop sample for a class I'm planning for this summer, and when they are done at the shop they will be mine, mine, mine. This is like a perfect-storm project for me - I love socks, I'm on a lace kick, I love the beautiful sproing of Koigu and the pinks and browns of this colorway are not only popular right now, but a current favorite of mine. I'm feeling very happy about knitting right now. Oh, and the SP10 questionnaire is here.
I haven't been posting nearly enough kid pictures lately, so here are a couple quick shots from dinnertime tonight:
Off to knit the socks!
Still, it is a whole new rhythm to learn, and with patterning all the way around the cuff, it made sense to switch from my beloved Pony Pearls to a long Addi Turbo and a Magic Loop type of technique. I've never read the actual Magic Loop directions, but my knitting looks something like this when I employ it.
Knitting the
The one on the right side I am a little less confident of, but I have now ripped this section back three times, and I am not going to rip it back again, so help me. I will knit at least to this point on the second sock before the actual class starts in late summer so that I can teach it with confidence.
Now it's time to knit this puppy straight to the top! I bought yarn for Pomotomus this weekend, and it's beautiful stuff. You'll have to wait at least another day or so to see it. Neener Neener!
Oh, and I got an e-mail from my SP10 hostess asking us to post about our favorite current project. Hi, Shelby! I hope this little update counts. Just to recap, Baudelaire socks from Knitty Summer '06. Koigu P621. This is going to be a shop sample for a class I'm planning for this summer, and when they are done at the shop they will be mine, mine, mine. This is like a perfect-storm project for me - I love socks, I'm on a lace kick, I love the beautiful sproing of Koigu and the pinks and browns of this colorway are not only popular right now, but a current favorite of mine. I'm feeling very happy about knitting right now. Oh, and the SP10 questionnaire is here.
I haven't been posting nearly enough kid pictures lately, so here are a couple quick shots from dinnertime tonight:
Off to knit the socks!
posted by Shelly Kang at 9:35 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Shelly,
The socks look great. I wish New Jersey was just a *little bit* closer to Minnesota, and then I could take your class.
My reason for writing is that in one of your recent posts you talked about links and bandwidth and such, and I really didn't understand it, being the newbie and not-so-very-computer-savvy blogger that I am. Anyway, someone asked me a question about the mitred square blankie that I've been knitting along with yours, and I posted an answer today. In the post, I linked to your page a couple of times, pointing out your (fabulous!) blankie tutorial and where to find it.
This long-winded comment is really to ask if I have erred and am guilty of stealing bandwidth or something when I did the hyper-link thing to your page. I don't want to do something wrong, so thought I should ask you to take a look at today's post when you get a chance. I'll delete it, or at least the links, if I did something wrong.
Thanks,
Dianne
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