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Feb. 27th, 2010 05:01 pmI am knitting a sock toe. Yay me.
...I can't figure out toe-up socks on the loom. Or rather, I have instructions, using short-row method and a weird combination of specificity (in the wrong places) and vagueness that makes it utterly confusing even if you know the theory behind short rows; but on needles, my preferred method was turkish cast-on, which is similar to the figure 8 cast-on here, which is basically starting *at the toe* and then increasing into the foot ... if you've done a top-down sock, and did the toe using decreases and then grafting, it's basically that in reverse. And I can't figure out how to do it loomishly.
(I picked up needles for the first time in MONTHS, because I was trying to explain magic loop and i-cord, and I needed a physical demonstration. I could barely remember how to cast on! Argh. Also, the needles were too short. I really need, like, standard-straight-needle-length dpns, or something. Except that would be awkward, and anyway no one else would have reason to use them.)
Alas.
(...I also really fucking miss cross-stitch, dammit.)
...I can't figure out toe-up socks on the loom. Or rather, I have instructions, using short-row method and a weird combination of specificity (in the wrong places) and vagueness that makes it utterly confusing even if you know the theory behind short rows; but on needles, my preferred method was turkish cast-on, which is similar to the figure 8 cast-on here, which is basically starting *at the toe* and then increasing into the foot ... if you've done a top-down sock, and did the toe using decreases and then grafting, it's basically that in reverse. And I can't figure out how to do it loomishly.
(I picked up needles for the first time in MONTHS, because I was trying to explain magic loop and i-cord, and I needed a physical demonstration. I could barely remember how to cast on! Argh. Also, the needles were too short. I really need, like, standard-straight-needle-length dpns, or something. Except that would be awkward, and anyway no one else would have reason to use them.)
Alas.
(...I also really fucking miss cross-stitch, dammit.)