| Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| So 2.5mm dpns aren't evil after all! |
I tried my first attempt at knitting with dpns today- 2.5mm. I'm making my first pair of socks, and they'll be for Yannick. He had a choice- I do my pair first as practice, and he gets a more experienced pair, or I do his first and he gets them sooner. He chose sooner, figuring I could always make him another pair. I think I got gyped somehow. :)
I was horrified at first, 'cus after I casted on (caste on??) the first row was HORRIBLE to knit! I kept splitting the yarn, and peering at the tiny things like I was blind. The only thing I could think of was what in the world I was getting into, with my birthday gift of 22 entire skeins of yarn waiting to be knitted on 2.5mm circs into a skirt and top. Luckily, once I got into rows 2 and beyond, it went much smoother and is actually kinda fun after big, loopy mohair-type stuff. Here's a pic (which didn't come out too bad considering I took it with my Palm):
This isn't actually part of the sock, but the beginnings of my gauge swatch. Isn't the yarn cute? It's by Regia and self-stripes to look almost like Fair Isle. I got myself 2 skeins also to make a striped pair. All the loops you see underneath are because I had to fake my swatch as if I was knitting in the round (stockinette by knitting every row instead of knit 1 row, purl 1 row, repeat) so I let the yarn hang behind the work a bit and then start knitting again at the right side. I only have 2 skeins though so I'll have to frog the swatch once I'm done.
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posted by Jennifer Lori @ 7:04 pm   |
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