The good news is I'm making my progress on my first sock.
The bad news is everything else.
Eve valiantly endeavored to teach me Judy's Magic Cast-On today. Multiple times. I could just not get the hang of it. Maybe it's because I was working on dpns rather than circulars, but first I couldn't get the loops to interlock, and then once I finally managed that, I couldn't manage to knit between the two -- it was too tight. I think the most I got was six stitches before the whole thing fell apart.
After watching me rip, curse, and try again for about an hour and a half, Eve pronounced me "stubborn as a mule." I told her that was one of the nicest compliments I'd gotten in quite a while.
The provisional cast-on as directed in Knitty's Toe-Up Sock Formula drove me crazy (me not liking a crochet cast-on? There is clearly a disturbance in the Force) so I was really hoping the Magic Cast-On would do the trick. Curses, foiled again.
So the upshot of all this is I've decided wrap-and-turn toes aren't so bad after all. I'll have to post a picture of my first one so you can see what happens when you forget to slip a stitch on the second half of the toe. I might have frogged it and tried again if I weren't already so sick of frogging, but since this is my first sock and I know it's going to have mistakes no matter what, I decided to suck it up. Lizardsmells tells me that's easy enough to fix. (Oh, there is good news! I got to hang out with Lizardsmells which definitely makes me cooler than you are. Envy me!)
Oh, and in other bad news, the tip of one of my #1 dpns has been chewed on. *looks meaningfully at No No Bad Kitty*
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2 comments:
Go take a look at those pictures from Knitty again. Judy's using doublepoints! It just takes practice, practice, practice. And that's where being stubborn will serve you well.
It took me for absolutely-freaking-ever to figure out a crochet cast on that works and I still mess it up half the time. There is a REALLY easy way to start toe up socks that I found in the Sensational Knitted Socks book. It does involve a provisional cast on but waste yarn works for the 7 minutes you have it in there. You basically cast on with waste yarn, knit a little rectangle, pick up the stitches on the sides and the ones from the provisional cast on and then start going around and increasing. I think Charlene calls it the "easy toe"
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