On my needles currently are a vanilla sock made with Fortissma Socka yarn, which is in a glorious colorway and knits fairly easily except it's a little bit splitty.
I'm knitting this one with 60 cast on stitches on size 0 needles, and although the sock fits my foot, it's a little snugger than it needs to be. So I may knit its mate on size 1's instead.
This has my current Knit-in-Public project, but as I get close to the toe decreases I'm going to have to finish it in solitude. It's only my third sock, so the pattern isn't well-imprinted on my brain or in my fingers just yet. In other words, I can't talk and knit at the same time! For my next pair of socks, I'm planning to be more ambitious with the leg, and use a fancier pattern, but for this pair I just wanted to concentrate on getting the numbers and techniques right.
If I can't talk and knit on that project, on this one I can't even knit and breathe! Intense concentration row-by-row is the only way to get through this, Pam Budd's Little Arrowhead shawl and my first lace-knitting attempt. Other Ravelers scored it as "easy" so if it's easy for them it might be almost achievable by me.Sigh. It sure doesn't look like much in this picture. I didn't have any way of spreading the stitches out more like they'll look when blocked. But you can see how pretty the color is, and I have to say that Trekking is lovely to knit with. I don't find it as splitty as the Fortissma Socka.
This morning I got two more rows on successfully, counting and checking constantly.
No comments:
Post a Comment