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I’ve left the pink thing on the 60″ Addis—I’ll get back to it later—and begun the real thing. As I suspected, the J&S laceweight is more controllable than the Grignasco Merinosilk, because it is wool and will stay where I put it and because it is not as fine. The rosewood dpn’s help too, being less weighty than the aluminum ones. The corners do not stretch out as much.

On Tricky’s recommendation, this time I cast on with Emily Ocker’s Circular Cast, which is one of two cast-ons described at the back of the book, and managed to avoid the larger hole at the end of the first round hole. I avoided the Ocker cast-on the first time because I am a disaster with crochet, save for fixing dropped stitches. I’m still a disaster: it took me four tries to get eight stitches on three dpn’s.

The pink thing may sit for a while. I won’t need the 60″ for weeks.