Now, the main event - "Seat of my pants" sock pictures. I had planned on making this Lana Grossa Meilenweit Cotton Stretch into some Nutkins, but the yarn is so stretchy, the yo's and ssk's pulled away from the other stitches in an unattractive fashion. Lesson learned - sock yarn with stretch is best suited for knit/purl patters, cables, and twisted stitches. I'll try Nutkins again some time with plain old wool, but something else was required for the Cotton Stretch.
So I went through my library of stitch patterns a bazillion times until I was completely cross-eyed and came up with one from Gisela Klopper's Beautiful Knitting Patterns. It called for cables and some brioche rib, but the brioche was much too springy in the stretchy yarn, so I converted the brioche rib into twisted knitted stitches and plain old purl stitches. Works well.
I gave this one a standard toe (eastern cast on of, like, 12 stitches) and a short row heel. It would be further along, but I had to rip back to increase needle size after the heel.
The girl tank progressed a little this weekend - it has become my Battlestar knitting. In case you are one of the few people I have never tried to strong arm into watching it, I should let you know that Battlestar Galactica is my FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIME. Period. Exclamation point. I started watching about a year and a half ago on a friend's recommendation (but I started from the beginning, which is what you should do if you haven't seen it yet; you can't just jump in the middle) and I'm so into it that I won't let myself knit while watching a new episode. It is so important to me to soak up every detail that even small glances away from the screen are unacceptable. With any other show, I wouldn't be able to help myself, but not this one.
So technically, the girl tank is my Battlestar *commercial* knitting, which means that I get about 18 minutes of knitting done one it every Friday night - more time than I would make for it otherwise. I'm bored with it. But the back is almost the right length and then it is just the fronts and some sleeves. A couple more episodes and it will be done.
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Way to go, fellow Battlestar fan! My husband and I are HUGE fans as well, so I can completely relate with the mania, hee hee! I just love Baltar - he's so weird and insane. The whole character cast fits really well together.
But anyway, on the knitting front, lovely job with those socks!
I'm debating about going tonight because of life drama and because my Addis are drilling a hole in my pointer finger, but I'll try to make it--funny how weekly attendance seems excessive (and in fact I usually forget it's that time of the week on those "off" weeks until sometime around bedtime Wednesday night) but biweekly feels doable. Looks like you'll soon have another pattern to add to your list. :) And we can discuss Battlestar, though based on the anti-TV sentiments expressed by some last week, we might have to do it quietly.
Hooray for more Battlestar fans! I'm loving that Baltar ditched the beard and long hair and it back to being ladies-man-Gaius.
I hear you on the bi-weekly knit night thing, Brooke. It's just the right frequency for me. Sorry to hear things are conspiring against you this week, but I hope to see you there.
You know, I got my knitting out to watch the last BSG and totally failed to complete a stitch. Glad to know it wasn't just me!
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