*eyes cross*
Sep. 12th, 2010 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelCast on for Althea yesterday. Decided on needles rather than sock loom because I am insane want to get started NOWDANGIT and don't have the quantity of coilless safety pins that would be needed for short-row toes.
(I have not given up on magic cast-on equivalent for loom stuff. Current untried theory is to take advantage of the adjustableness of the loom -- shrink it up all the way, leave the fastening band off, do some sort of figure-eight-y cast on over the close parallel sides, and scootch the adjustable bit out a little with each increase -- but even if that does work, which it probably won't, the first "row" will be hideously loose.)
This is not the first sock I've done. (But the last one that was successfully done was for one thing Magic-Looped, and for another done *three years ago*, when I had significantly more mobility.
It is not the first time I've used the long dpns, but lately I've been using them as straights.
It is not the first thing I've done in the round on dpns, albeit not with this length.
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With that said, omgwtfargh*flail*
I am used, lately, to knitting on size 5 (3.75mm) needles. Althea calls for 2.5 (3mm), which are by no means the smallest sock needle -- I do own long bamboo size 0 (2mm) -- but they look and feel pretty much like kabob skewer things.
Also, long needles are a bit ungainly, but long dpns in the round are ridiculous. I have not yet poked my eye out, only because they are not long enough to reach my face from my hands, but it is, erm. Interesting. I shall have to get a picture.
Also also, the method of knitting that I've been using lately works fine on size 5 needles -- left hand near needle tips, right hand holding the base of the right needle, continental yarn hold, with the yarn wrapping twice around the index finger for tensioning and to allow yarn manipulation -- but on the smaller needles, it isn't working. Part of the problem is there isn't enough grab to keep the stitch on the needle when I pull it through; part is the needles are more flexible; part of it is I don't know what.
So my current method of working the socks is to tension the yarn with my right hand, and use the left hand to pull a loop of yarn up and over the needle. It is frustratingly slow and a bit painful, but I'm not sure what else to do.
(Aside from switching to the loom when I get the toe section done, I suppose.)
(I have not given up on magic cast-on equivalent for loom stuff. Current untried theory is to take advantage of the adjustableness of the loom -- shrink it up all the way, leave the fastening band off, do some sort of figure-eight-y cast on over the close parallel sides, and scootch the adjustable bit out a little with each increase -- but even if that does work, which it probably won't, the first "row" will be hideously loose.)
This is not the first sock I've done. (But the last one that was successfully done was for one thing Magic-Looped, and for another done *three years ago*, when I had significantly more mobility.
It is not the first time I've used the long dpns, but lately I've been using them as straights.
It is not the first thing I've done in the round on dpns, albeit not with this length.
#
With that said, omgwtfargh*flail*
I am used, lately, to knitting on size 5 (3.75mm) needles. Althea calls for 2.5 (3mm), which are by no means the smallest sock needle -- I do own long bamboo size 0 (2mm) -- but they look and feel pretty much like kabob skewer things.
Also, long needles are a bit ungainly, but long dpns in the round are ridiculous. I have not yet poked my eye out, only because they are not long enough to reach my face from my hands, but it is, erm. Interesting. I shall have to get a picture.
Also also, the method of knitting that I've been using lately works fine on size 5 needles -- left hand near needle tips, right hand holding the base of the right needle, continental yarn hold, with the yarn wrapping twice around the index finger for tensioning and to allow yarn manipulation -- but on the smaller needles, it isn't working. Part of the problem is there isn't enough grab to keep the stitch on the needle when I pull it through; part is the needles are more flexible; part of it is I don't know what.
So my current method of working the socks is to tension the yarn with my right hand, and use the left hand to pull a loop of yarn up and over the needle. It is frustratingly slow and a bit painful, but I'm not sure what else to do.
(Aside from switching to the loom when I get the toe section done, I suppose.)
