Knit One, Purl Too: A Knitlog

Better late than never, here is my MAN-ALONG update: I now know that there are twenty cable twists evey four rows in this pattern. Twenty ways to say “I love you” (every fourth row). It’s not as much of a PITA as it sounds, but the idea that I’ll do 600 of these twists before the shoulder shaping is a little daunting.

I’m making progress because I’ve promised myself that this is the first project I’ll work on each day - and I’m interested enough that this is often the only project I work on.

Today, however, was the exception - the Knit One, Purl Too staff (my husband and I) was up at the crack of dawn (before, really) to go and do our civic duty by voting. I took along the Peacock socks, recently converted to Magic Looping, and looped away in line for an hour or so while waiting I know that knitting before breakfast means I’ve crossed some kind of line).

For the record, Magic Looping is much easier than it seems, and though I didn’t mind wrangling size 0 DPNs, this seems less fiddly (a knitter at my LYS said she had done a time study and found that, knitting speed aside, Magic Looping was 1.5 times as fast as DPNs). Next stop? Short row heel country (a special thank you to the editors of Interweave Knits for including an article on short rows in the latest issue by the estimable Veronik Avery)!

Bonus link: Reversible mittens knit with sock yarn - so cool (and another excuse for self-patterning yarn)!

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