Knits

Recently I went back to California for a week. In that week I purchased ridiculous quantities of yarn despite having ridiculous quantities of yarn at home that have been waiting to be put to use for many, many, many months. Seriously, most of that yarn in that huge inventory I did, still waiting. I find that I get bored with patterns rather quickly so I give up or something new and shiny catches my eye. My knitting is getting quicker, but it still needs a lot of improvement in terms of speed. I really need to learn how to knit the continental method because throwing the yarn really is slow.

I also bought the Mason-Dixon Knitting book. I knit my mom a dishrag / wash cloth or flannel (depending on what side of the Atlantic you’re on). Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of it and had to leave her or my sister to weave in the ends as I had to get on a plane back to the UK! Making the dishrag was actually part of me teaching my sister to knit. We didn’t get very far as she wasn’t feeling well and had to go back to bed. However, she’s apparently practising and getting better! Hurrah. I’m sure she’ll out-knit me soon enough.

I did knit a sock, however! My first sock. I had a lot of problems with the pattern as it was written for an experienced sock knitter and I was not one. There was an error early on in the pattern and the author rectified that quickly, but when I went back for further clarification, I managed to offend the author. Oh well. With help from another knitting forum and the bit of help the author provided, I got it figured out and finished the sock. It does need the end at the toe weaved in, but I want to tighten up the kitchener stitch a bit more. It needs a mate yet, but I needed to get on with a bit of Christmas knitting before I can do that.

Prior to the sock I knitted a single baby bootie. This I did entirely intend to make a partner too, but when I got to the bit where I joined the two sides up with the kitchener stitch, well that’s when a very ugly flaw in the yarn appeared. As annoying as it is to find a knot in hank / skein, generally it’s workable, but this was not only a knot, but shredded strands falling on either side of the knot. In retrospect, I should’ve cut the yarn either side of the knot where it was in good nick and knot it back together, but I just persevered. It was messy and ugly and really irritated me so I didn’t make it’s mate.

Note that this post is actually about 10 days old. I just didn’t have time to add that fantastic photo so I didn’t post it. Forgive me. I have lots of other knitting to do yet.

The details:
Yarn: Natural dye studio Luxury merino sock wool in emerald
Needles: 2.5mm Prym bamboo
Tension / gauge: unknown (e.g. too lazy to measure)

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