Knit One, Purl Too: A Knitlog

Well, one needle, to be exact - my back was turned for two minutes and one of my Brittany Birch doublepoints was in pieces, courtesy of my dog. Conveniently, I was on the heel flap of my second Broadripple sock,
and won’t require all five needles again unless I want to make, oh, another pair of socks. Five needles has spoiled me - I so prefer it to four.

And I adore making socks - it’s so quick and so practical - after all, I wear socks almost every day. After this pair is complete, since I have two more pairs worth of Fixation, I might make Matt’s Fixation Socks. Of course, I’d need (say it with me) a new set of needles to be truly happy.

But to be honest, my heart is elsewhere. Where, you ask? Despite the fact that I have two sweaters on the needles, after perusing a copy of Alice Starmore’s Stillwater (thank you, interlibrary loan), my heart belongs to Rambling Rose (Victoria is a fine knitter, by the way - check out her other stuff). As an aside, one of my neighbors has a Rambling Rose because a friend knit it for her - I’m such a geek that when she showed it to me I was all “That has to be an Alice Starmore!” As soon as I saw the picture in Stillwater, I said “That’s Rebecca’s sweater!” and I knew I had to make one of my own.

I am in love with this sweater enough to struggle through the process of learning to knit it, so I will most likely tackle one of these two hats (or one of these) for practice with my stranded knitting techniques before I forge ahead on the sweater itself. KBTH has an exceptional teddy-bear sized Fair Isle sweater that would even allow me to practice steeking, but I have no bears to dress, alas.