Sunny Day, Sweeping the Couds Away

Tuesday at lunch, Bridget and Amy remembered something about the first cable sock that I had completely forgotten.  I had been working on it using my brand new Rosewood DPN's that had just arrived.  Somewhere through that sock, I switched to the pointy metal ones, probably after reading the page in Stephanie's book that I took as license to like my pointy metal dpns again.  (As an aside, I also feel better about preferring a flap heel to a short row heels thanks to her as well.  If its good enough for the Yarn Harlot, it should be damn well good enough for me.)  Looking closely at the first sock, you can indeed see where I switched needles, it's about a 1/3 of the way through the foot.  Not terribly noticeable unless you are really looking closely.  The cables from thereon and the ones on the second sock matched exactly.  I agree with Nancy that it would be a bit dodgy to add repeats to get the length to match up.  Preponderance of fraternal twins notwithstanding... here's how the socks looked by the time I went to sleep Tuesday night:

Yup.  I had to frog it.  I don't frog all that much, and I'm not exactly a perfectionist, but I really had no choice here.  Thankfully, I am also a fast knitter!  Here's the second sock as of ...NOW:

Yup.  I turned the heel this morning on the train to Secaucus and was picking up the stitches along the flap on the way to Penn Station.  The very large cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee precluded any further knitting though.   I will be tucking the sock in my purse for during my lunchtime trek with the new coworker to Chinatown.  I have my camera so maybe a picture or two later of the outing.

What's that hanging off the needle you ask?  Here's a closer view:

That's a beaded row counter.  I have ten beads separated by ten jump rings.  As I finish a row, I slip the next jump ring on the needle.  This was sooooo incredibly handy when knitting the cuff of the sock.  The cables are on a 10 row repeat and instead of stopping to count rows, I could tell immediately where in the repeat I was.  Those little plastic row counters don't work with dpns, and are slow.  You have to stop and twist.  Blech.  The beads are fast!  I also got some beading practice while making this too!  I think I'm going to make me another set, this time with a different color bead each 5th bead.  How can I tell one end from the other you ask, well the 10th bead has a small seed bead stopper instead of a jump ring.  Ingenious if you ask me.

The best yet, I knit that sock while watching my ReplayTV!!!!  Woooo.  That thing will change your life.  I've had it one day now and I ain't ever getting rid of it.  Ever.  Never.  It was so very cool to pause the movie I was watching on TCM last night (Holiday with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn) when Alexander cried out.  Sweet.  I have it set to catch 24, House, Grey's Anatomy, ER for me and Barney and Sesame Street for the kids.  With the new DVD recorder I can burn all this stuff to DVD to play on the new portable for the car!  I love gadgets :)

As a quick informal survey, which do you prefer, large images in the post like today's versus the smaller thumbnails like Tuesday's.  Personally, I'm not quite sure which I like better and will vary from one to the other, sometimes both in the same post.  Just checking if there is a blogging etiquette that I'm missing.

Knit on.

Comments

[Nancy]

Oh, you know me - I'm a BIG photo gal. 1000 words and all that.

Knew it! Knew you would rip that offending sock. Very responsible of you. (coughanalcough) ;)

I so want one of those recorders but Brian's still trying to choose technology/brand/etc. I drive so many choices that I have to let him have his zones, but I'd be just fine if he got on with it already!