FO #3, the pointelle socks
Oct. 7th, 2007 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Everyone say hi to my first (and maybe last) pair of hand-knitted socks! Together they are FO #3.

Want more? I posted about them in more detail on my knit-blog, and I took a bunch of pictures, some of which involve both socks AND cats.
My main gripe about socks is that they take forever, and I won't even know whether I like them as socks until it gets cold enough to wear them. I learned a ton of things though -- these were my first experience with provisional cast-ons, lace, short-row shaping, tubular bind-off, and k1p1 ribbing (highly enjoyable, the hands get into a nice jazzy swing. It may sound weird, but I could have kept knitting the cuffs for a long time). Kind of a long list, in retrospect. I'm not quite sure why I decided to do these before starting a sweater... there's a sweater I'm in love with, which I already have yarn for and have already swatched for and thought about a lot... I think it had something to do with job-hunting stress, back when I was too freaked out all the time to enjoy reading on the bus. Anyway, I've had it with the small projects. Sweaters are the whole reason I decided to learn to knit, and it's time to make one already.

Want more? I posted about them in more detail on my knit-blog, and I took a bunch of pictures, some of which involve both socks AND cats.
My main gripe about socks is that they take forever, and I won't even know whether I like them as socks until it gets cold enough to wear them. I learned a ton of things though -- these were my first experience with provisional cast-ons, lace, short-row shaping, tubular bind-off, and k1p1 ribbing (highly enjoyable, the hands get into a nice jazzy swing. It may sound weird, but I could have kept knitting the cuffs for a long time). Kind of a long list, in retrospect. I'm not quite sure why I decided to do these before starting a sweater... there's a sweater I'm in love with, which I already have yarn for and have already swatched for and thought about a lot... I think it had something to do with job-hunting stress, back when I was too freaked out all the time to enjoy reading on the bus. Anyway, I've had it with the small projects. Sweaters are the whole reason I decided to learn to knit, and it's time to make one already.
Knitting
Date: 2007-10-08 12:48 pm (UTC)Now that sweater pattern...Holy cow is that beautiful! I've just hunted up the book and found it at Web's, which is two minutes from the shop. I shall be buying it. And perhaps the yarn. Maybe today. I, too, need that sweater. Need.
Re: Knitting
Date: 2007-10-09 02:09 am (UTC)Glad to have made someone else fall in love with the Hild pattern, though. :D I adore it -- it's the kind of sweater money can't buy, cable patterns like that simply can't be found on the racks. Definitely re-read my post about the swatch and my thoughts on the pattern before you actually start the thing; I mean the cable pattern is brilliant, but the size part of the pattern has quite a few weirdnesses.
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Date: 2007-10-08 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 02:10 am (UTC)Your icon is stunningly appropriate for the sentiment. *grin*
Thanks!