let's have some fun

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The one drawback to knitting socks is that really, once you get past the initial “this weird tube thing is going to be socks,” there is not a lot to blog about until you’ve actually turned them into socks.

I’m not quite there yet, but I’m close – ready to bind off at the top, at least. I’m knitting these with an afterthought heel, because I have many ambitions but short-rowing two socks at once is not one of them. It’s actually my favourite kind of heel, I think it makes the socks look really polished and neat, and I’m really stoked about being able to get both out of the way at once. This technique is exactly what I needed to actually be able to work on socks.

The Koigu is, of course, pooling terribly, but I’m not surprised. I think it’s something about the size of my feet, but every variegated yarn I’ve ever used just turns into diagonal stripes when I knit it into socks for myself. Oh well.

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so how do you get here, under my skin?

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So, this is the new knitting trick I learned at Lettuce Knit last week, and it is omgsofun. It’s not even a difficult trick – basically, I am magic-looping a pair of socks, but I’m knitting both of them at the same time from two balls of yarn, instead of one at a time from one ball of yarn at a time. It is exactly like knitting one sock using magic loop, it just takes longer. But I am still SO EXCITED, because I am awful for not finishing socks and this is like. A built-in finishing mechanism. It’s a little bit thrilling.

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