I have been working on a sock pattern from Knitting on the Road Sock Patterns for the Traveling Knitter. Although I am not traveling – in fact I have been firmly planted in the house while the guys are working on the bathroom! I ordered the yarn from Elann. It is a self striping sock yarn. This stuff is mesmerizing — as I knit it up, the stripes emerge (as if by magic!) and the math involved in making this happen boggles my mind! It is the David Blaine of fiber!
I am working the pattern called Friday Harbor. It is lovely. I had a bit of a rough start however. The first hurdle was to find size 2 dpns. The ones I did find are my grandmother’s old ones. The tips are more snub nosed than pointy and it makes working the pattern with such fine yarn challenging. Also the needles are so old that there are some rust marks on them and the yarn does not slide smoothly. buying new needles would be too easy – I must be a masochistic knitter! ;) . Furthermore, the chart for the pattern is misleading and in parts downright wrong. I only thought to look up errata on the Interweave Site after three false starts! ergh! (please read the ergh as growling noise) Is that something other knitters do before they begin, look up any mistakes? Am I so hopelessly naive? I have come a long way though — not too many years ago, it would never have entered my mind that the mistake was the pattern’s, I would have thought I was doing something wrong.
Anyway the socks are coming along nicely and so is the construction work – have I mentioned that I am in love with my contractor?? wink, wink
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