One leg down

I discovered something this last week.

I absolutely cannot do 2 socks on 2 circs.  I had tried knitting 2 things at once before (both sleeves on Ribby Cardi)... and even though that was just one needle, I despised constantly having to untwist the yarn balls from each other.  With these socks, I thought I'd try it, and I figured it'd be easier if I wound both skeins of yarn together into one ball.  Unfortunately, that didn't eliminate the yarns twisting around each other (although it was easier to just turn the one big ball around, rather than moving two balls around each other to untangle them).  The bigger problem, though, was that I kept managing to catch the yarn in between the needles at the point where I switched from one sock to another.  The two strands of yarn became hopelessly tangled around the needles in such a way that the ONLY way I could fix it was to start from the other end and unwind the two skeins from each other and back into seperate balls.  That in and of itself took a good hour.  What a mess!

So, I transferred one sock in progress onto a couple of dpn's, and started working the other one alone.

PERFECTIONISM ALERT!
Readers with a low tolerance for
obsessive/compulsive style insanity
should avert their eyes now.

Knit group (specifically, Anne) saved my bacon on these socks. 

The basic lace unit of this pattern is two yarn over eyelets with a double decrease in between.  Having done the double decrease the pattern called for (slip one stitch knitwise, knit 2 together, pass slipped stitch back over) before and not liking the results, I decided  to switch it out for a centered double decrease.  The one I knew, though (slip 2 stitches together knitwise, knit the next stitch, pass slipped stitches back over) was incredibly difficult to do on the tiny needles, especially towards the first end where the knitting is a little tighter in order to avoid laddering.  I was pretty much hating knitting this pattern (but with so little time left, I didn't have time to change it).  Anne taught me another centered double decrease (slip 2 stitches together knitwise, slip the next stitch knitwise, knit the 3 stitches together through the back loop... it's just like a ssk, but with 3 stitches instead of 2).  YEA!  So, so much easier to do.  It's still a bit of work, but now... now I might actually finish these socks by the deadline.  *PHEW!* 

Thank you, Anne. :)

Comments

[Cass]

Start from the toe with 2 balls. Put each ball in its own sock :)