Knits

I’m afraid I’m not really any further along with the Falling Leaves socks. I’ve done one pattern repeat since I turned the heel. Despite the excitement of having two socks at once from the toe-up thanks to using an extremely long circular needle, I was finding it really wasn’t making me feel like I’d made any progress. And because of the need to readjust the needles four times each round, it really slows things down. Maybe two circulars is the way to go…

Anyway, I ended up moving one sock onto a set of DPNs. Hopefully this will mean I will actually make progress and finish a sock. Unfortunately, I only had one set of DPNs small enough and there’s only 4 of them. They’re actually a nice set of 5″ aluminium needles inherited from my grandma - no idea what brand. Last night I was trying to find some DPNs for sock knitting and wasn’t really having any luck. I’m after 5″ length with relatively sharp points. Any recommendations? Previously I tried some bamboo needles and I think maybe I got a bad batch as one of the needles was *really* bendy and the tips dulled quickly.

In other news, I got moo cards. I choose 20 different pictures so I got 5 of each card - I even got two knitting pictures in there. Heh. And yesterday I had a work away half-day for “strategic planning” which of course didn’t really happen. It was held in a 13th century Abbey. Very, very pretty building and grounds. Unfortunately when I went to take pictures all sorts of people were completely intrigued that I had a camera and sort of followed me so I didn’t really feel comfortable taking pictures with an audience so I just quickly snapped some things which didn’t turn out very good. I’d actually like to visit the place again just to take some pictures!

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