In Which I Have a Theory
I got up at 5 to feed the cat, but she let me go back to sleep on the sofa. 9:30. She let me sleep until 9:30.
The Little Monster misses J, who has gone to the Crazy State (RI) for his dad’s birthday (81st). He’s only been gone a day and she’s following me around wanting to be petted. J is usually the object of her affection; I’m her much-scarred playmate. How does she get those claws so sharp so fast?
The ice is melting! The parking lot out back is an icy lake. I think the drains are still plugged with ice.
I have a theory why the two socks came out different sizes. While knitting a third sock, I thought that the twist on the third cake seemed tight. I have finished the leg and I find that it matches the shorter of two existing legs. The two completed socks are the same length more or less, but the foot is longer on one and the leg longer on the other, by five-eighths of an inch or so. I switched the two balls when knitting the second sock and have tighter twisted yarn on opposite ends of the pair. It’s a theory.
If true, the getting a matching foot will be a challenge.
This is the scarf I’ve been working on for J for over a year. It’s now just an end-to-end garter stitch, but it is such a bore. It was garter stitch, knit entirely through the back loop, but that was never going to be finished—not enough stretch in this yarn—and I frogged and started over recently.
J doesn’t think I’ll ever finish it; therefore, assuming I can knit on it in morning before he gets up, it will make a nice Valentine’s gift.
- Yarn
- elsebeth lavold Silky Cashmere, 003 Black, 005 Wine, 004 Rust
- Needles
- Addi Turbo 5.00mm (US #8), 150cm circ
- Pattern
- CO a lot, knit back and forth ad nauseum
BTW, I use the wooden spool on the circ cable (lower right) to push the work along the needle.
PS. One of my pet peeves is people who don’t show you what the back of a scarf looks like. It always shows when worn. (I’m guilty too.)
PPS. I’ve updated the reading list.
Back to knitting.
February 8th, 2009 at 5:38:22 pm
Are you going to darn in all those ends on that Scarf, or will it be turned into fringe? (If fringe, I’d have worked the whole thing differently, but I’m not going to tell you now because at this point you might be annoyed.)
I think you should bring the socks to the men’s knitting retreat and let’s look. (Do you measure the socks when in progress by counting rows — “Let’s see, I knitted 72 rows after picking up for the gussets and before starting the toe shaping, so I need to work 72 rows on the other sock.” — or do you use a tape measure?)
February 8th, 2009 at 6:42:13 pm
It will be short fringe. It wouldn’t look much different if I had been going for a square end. The Silky Cashmere yields only three and a quarter rows per skein. It splices ugly, so I start a new skein every three rows. I have lots of remnants.
I count rounds on socks and this is the first time I’ve gotten two wildly different socks after blocking. This is also the first set I’ve made with Koigu. I guess that it is also possible that I wound these in opposite directions giving them different twists as they came out of the cake, but unlikely. Turning the ball-winder counter-clockwise feels unnatural.
These socks should be in Dallas long before May, all three of them.