Our Amy Christoffers Knitalong is about to start. The official cast on date is February 1, and we’ll go with whatever time zone you’re in, so as long as it’s sometime after 12:01 AM in your country, you can get knitting! Though I suggest sleeping, myself.
If you’re interested in joining, or already joined in via the previous blog post, please let me know if I may link to your blog, so we can have a running tally of everyone’s progress. Also, we do have a good discussion going on in the Sweater Odyssey Amy Christoffers Knitalong thread on Ravelry, so feel free to join in there!
I swatched for my Larch cardigan, and washed my swatch, though I didn’t block it much at all. Since there’s no lace pattern or anything that needs to open up, I decided to simply let the swatch dry and see how the yarn changed as a result of a simple dip in water. Well… it didn’t change at all. I don’t know what that means, but as my stitch gauge is really very close to the suggested gauge (24 stitches instead of 23 stitches), I think I’m just going to go with it. My row gauge a bit more off, 31 stitches instead of 29 stitches, but in this particular pattern, row gauge is a little less important than in others.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on my stripey socks, and I’ve discovered that I kind of hate knitting socks two at a time. While the appeal of knitting socks simultaneously is certainly present, the actual process becomes, for me, an exercise if tedium and fussiness. And since I’m planning to knit these until I run out of yarn, I’m afraid that the socks will become heavy on the single cable, as the sock that’s “on-deck” weighs down the entire cable while I’m trying to knit the other.
I tested out knitting two at a time on two-circular needles. I’d ever tried the two-circular method before, but here’s to adventure and learning and all that. This method was distributing the weight a little more evenly, but it’s fussy in a different way.
So as of last night I split the socks onto two different circular needles and am just busy working away on one sock at a time. If the process isn’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
Yay! I am so excited about the knitalong. I am still waiting on my yarn though. that makes me a sad panda. I totally know what you mean about knitting socks 2 at a time…they just grow SO much slower.
It does feel like they grow so much slower, but then you finish one and you’re done with both, and that does have a certain appeal! But I do think that I need the more immediate satisfaction of seeing a singular sock grow, especially since I don’t have trouble with Second Sock Syndrome.
And sadface on your yarn not being there yet! Hopefully it arrives very soon!
I agree with 2 at a time. Great in theory but just doesn’t work for me.
The awesome irony is that I will undoubtedly knit another pair of socks or two from that Two at a Time book, but knit them individually.