It’s not all vests, you know
So, about that vest I’m working on . . . yeah, it’s not done yet. But I’m getting so close! I’ve got a mental block on picking up stitches, you see. I hate it. Haaaaate. I don’t know why - it doesn’t hurt, it’s not that hard, it’s just something that I approach with extreme trepidation. Maybe I had a traumatic pick-up accident as a child, and the repressed memory still lingers below the surface of my consciousness. Granted, that’s incredibly far-fetched. But who knows?
I didn’t take the vest with me on vacation because of size constraints. Instead, I bought some needles and yarn at Twisted Yarns in Portland (great store, go there now, buy stuff and then go to ThaiPod for lunch down the street) and used the sock chapter from a copy of Knitting Rules that Lilith lent me to free-form a sock.
And guess what? It fits *beautifully*. I can’t wait to finish its mate. But first things first - I’m back on the vest. I’ve finished the neckline and I’m almost done with the first armhole. Then it’s just weaving in and blocking.
Have I mentioned I hate weaving in and blocking, too? I am so not a Renaissance Knitter.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:19 am
That sock is sweet… I love the striping.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am
wondered where you were! I hope all goes well, especially since I have to forgive you for being in my neighborhood without so much as a ‘hidely-ho, neighborino!’
January 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Great sock! I love the diagonal striping. What yarn is it?
January 21st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Gahhh! Picking up stitches one of my least favorite things also! It’s mostly because it’s one of those things I have to have decent light to see what I’m doing and keep focus on. Can’t exactly do it in bar or coffeeshop, or at night in front of TV, or…you get the idea. But weaving in not so bad, maybe next time work the ends in as you go along?
January 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I love how the colorway travels on that sock! It’s super-awesome!!!
Mmmm…Thai….
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 am
cool sock…i am diving into the world of sock knitting on my trip over to england in a few weeks…going to learn on the many hours of flights and layovers I will be enduring…have pattern/book and needles in hand…waiting for yarn to arrive. Woot!!!
You feel about picking up like I feel about seaming. Blech.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
That is a fetching and lurvley sock you have there.
Hmm…not a Renaissance knitter, eh? I don’t see you as a Victorian knitter or really as an Edwardian knitter, though that’s more likely. Perhaps you’re a post-modern knitter. Digital age knitter?
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Who doesn’t hate weaving in ends? And seaming. I have a personal vendetta against seaming. >.>
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Oh I hate picking up stitches - even more than I hate weaving in. I try all kinds of lame tricks to avoid the weaving.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I have a friend who *loves* seaming. The woman is nuts.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I love picking up stitches. Love love love it. I look forward to it even! My mental block is setting in sleeves. I get all worked up about that.