Sonntag, 15. Juni 2014
Socks...
ceinwen_imaril, 00:39h
... or why I prefer to do things in parallel.
I recently bought a book on how to knit socks pairwise rather than one after the other. As I already try to knit things in parallel - such as doing the front and back on the same needles - this was a natural extension of my library. And contrary to what the author of the book says, it´s not because I suffer from the second sock sydrome. Or rather, I suffer from a different variety of it. I am always to lazy to write down, when I increase the number of stitches or when I decrease it. So I always end up with only having almost identical pieces. There is always a difference between two pieces that are supposed to be identical. In any case, I wanted to know how this work, so I got the book.
The first thing was, that I only happened to have a 100g skein of sockwool (Lana Grossa Meilenweit, 420m/100g), so I first had to split it into two.
And then I started. It seemed straightforward enough - and it is - but the needles do not show it, as you can see here:
And the first rows felt as weird as this knot looks. But in the end it actually worked and as with a lot of things, it just takes a bit of practise. After a couple of rows it worked fairly smooth, as the result shows:
I just felt the needles provided with the book are too long. Additionally, one has to be careful to keep the thread very tight. Otherwise the stitches between the needles will be bigger than the others. So the next time I will try this technique with shorter needles - for now I have some nice, new socks to enjoy.
I recently bought a book on how to knit socks pairwise rather than one after the other. As I already try to knit things in parallel - such as doing the front and back on the same needles - this was a natural extension of my library. And contrary to what the author of the book says, it´s not because I suffer from the second sock sydrome. Or rather, I suffer from a different variety of it. I am always to lazy to write down, when I increase the number of stitches or when I decrease it. So I always end up with only having almost identical pieces. There is always a difference between two pieces that are supposed to be identical. In any case, I wanted to know how this work, so I got the book.
The first thing was, that I only happened to have a 100g skein of sockwool (Lana Grossa Meilenweit, 420m/100g), so I first had to split it into two.
And then I started. It seemed straightforward enough - and it is - but the needles do not show it, as you can see here:
And the first rows felt as weird as this knot looks. But in the end it actually worked and as with a lot of things, it just takes a bit of practise. After a couple of rows it worked fairly smooth, as the result shows:
I just felt the needles provided with the book are too long. Additionally, one has to be careful to keep the thread very tight. Otherwise the stitches between the needles will be bigger than the others. So the next time I will try this technique with shorter needles - for now I have some nice, new socks to enjoy.
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