Look, ma! Two socks at once!
I gave the Amelia cap two more tries. It just wasn’t working for me. It was causing me so much frustration that I’ve decided to hold off on knitting that pattern - and I may never knit it.
Instead I’m doing this…
Two socks at once! I’m going to knit the Falling Leaves socks from the Fall 2005 Knitty. However, I am using the Turkish cast-on with the help of the fantastic tutorial by misocrafty. I went ahead and purchased the recommended pattern (actually a set of patterns) which says to use the Turkish cast-on. I like the pattern, Badcaul by Anna Bell, but I’ve decided not to knit it right now. It was helpful to see how to increase the toe once cast-on since the Falling Leaves toe is constructed differently.
The picture above is actually the second cast-on. I cast-on and really had no problems, but my increases were messy. With the help of knittinghelp.com, I decided on a better method of increasing and they’re far neater now (the other ones were holey). We’ll see if I even get the two done tonight. I’m slightly distracted watching DVDs of the first series of Alias which I never saw. Even though I know what happens since I watched it from series two and into four, it’s still good!
Oh and the wool is from Natural Dye Studios. I’ll have to look up the colour as it didn’t come with a band. I ripped out the sock I knit with it (from last November / December) - that was my first knitted sock, but it just held some bad blood for me.
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Comments
Woohoo! Way to go! I love Anna Bell’s patterns, those will be beautiful!
Posted by: jillian | January 22nd, 2007 00:44
Thanks! How is it I can manage to figure out a Turkish cast-on and knit two socks at once, but I cannot manage a flat piece of knitting that is really nothing fancy?!
Posted by: Shannon | January 22nd, 2007 08:56