Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for March, 2006

Reader, I frogged it.

Posted in sockapaloooza on March 27th, 2006 1 Comment »

Before, and after - a story of three socks.

Things I don’t like about knitting

Posted in Retro Ribs, sockapaloooza on March 20th, 2006 3 Comments »

I am a slow enough knitter, however, that I go through each of the five Project Stages several times before they’re complete.

Cast on 64 stitches…or 72…or 60.

Posted in sockapaloooza on March 13th, 2006 3 Comments »

An actual comment from Knit One Purl Too’s caliper-fetching, ad hoc needle gauge measurement team (aka my husband): Just how many times have you cast on for that sock, anyway?

Me: Oh, just eight or nine.

In reality, it was probably closer to eighteen or nineteen, but the only time I really cared was when I started to resent, just a tiny bit, that every sock pattern I was trying did not require the same number of stitches cast on at the beginning.

Variegated yarn is so seductive.

Posted in sockapaloooza on March 3rd, 2006 5 Comments »

Plain-vanilla stockinette socks (even if they are in a yarn which makes knitters drool with envy) seems like I’m saying “I care, but not a whole lot.” It follows from this that ribbed socks say “I care enough to purl, but your socks will look sort of manly.”