Swimming in muddy waters
This will have to be short, since I am wiped out. The brilliant combination of very little sleep (even for me), a long night of tax crunching, a long day of this and that, the kind of work-perfect-storm where your head just explodes and explodes and explodes some more, and lots of knee pain in payment for yesterday's ride has me ready to just collapse.
But I wanted to tell you this: I learned a new trick, which does not happen to me that often in the knitting realm, not because there aren't tons of knitting techniques that I don't know how to do, but because I tend to just keep to the known universe when it comes to knitting. I am weird like that.
I do not know how to make cables, and I have never tried. I have never knit a sock. I have never successfully knit anything out of lace. And I tend to avoid patterns that require seams, even though I know damn well how to wield a sewing needle.
I may be adventurous as all hell in other areas of life, but as a knitter, I am a stick in the mud.
So, in that vein, I have begun knitting a pair of legwarmers that are pretty much exactly the color of mud. And sticks. Well, but they are pretty mud and sticks, you see. A lovely variety of browns from Briar Rose Fibers.
I don't have photos of any of the knitting I'm working on right now (I also have a brighter pair of legwarmers and Snow White on the various needles), but the big news about these particular brown 'warmers is that I am knitting them using 2 circular needles, which is a technique I'd never tried before. After attempting to learn Magic Loop and failing to get the hang of it, I wasn't all that wowza about doing the 2 circs thing, but someone convinced me to learn it as part of the Learn to Knit Socks Already initiative. Well, the socks will have to wait till I've got enough legwarmers to see my biking self through the spring, but step 1 has been accomplished. I have about 2 inches worth of ribbing done, so I think I can officially say that I've learned the technique.
All very exciting for you sock-making, lace-knitting, cable-contortionist fiends, I am certain.
But that's all I've got right now, gang. That and a bunch of complaints and tiredness and yearning for milder weather.
Two circs....I like that method. I used it for a while for all my socks and sleeves, until I saw the Magic Loop light. In the end it all came down to the bottom line and one long needle is cheaper to buy than two shorter ones.
Briar Rose? I can't wait to see them when done, as I have longed to have some of that fibre. It all looks delicious.
It is snowing here today....on the WEST COAST in MARCH.
I've gotten way behind on my blog reading and rely too heavily on bloglines to remind me of who I must check in on (please fix that RSS!) but happy to stumble back to one of my favorite places to find you've taken up two circs. Socks can't be far behind!