Loose Ends...

Shoe Story PS:

I forgot to mention -- I also do currently own a pair of "thongs" - not the butt floss kind, the "flipflop" kind... for those days when I actually get close to a beach, or for the damp days when I don't want the leather on the regular sandals to get wrecked. And, I didn't mention my slippers. I have: A pair of pink slippers that are I think referred to as "mules" - flat bottom, wide strap across the front of the foot, open toe... ; a pair of cat slippers that are like stuffed kitties that you put your feet into; A pair of cat slippers that are mule style, and have a tail, and a mask for their eyes for sleeping; a pair of cat slippers that are sort of mule style with closed toe - they are yellow terry with a cat face embroidered on them; A pair of doggy slippers that are like the first kitty ones; and a pair of knitted slip ons that were part of a goody-bag gift knitted by a friend to everyone who attended a particular fibre fest a few years ago.

Holiday:

I'm taking off for two and a half weeks, so I won't be around to post much. Also, if you leave a comment on my blog, I have it set for "approval" so you don't have to be a blogger member to post, but the other side of that is that I need to be around to approve the comment. So - if you post a comment, and it doesn't show for a while, don't think I don't approve. Well, mostly - I haven't had a bad or rude or spam comment since my very first post... Anyway - I will approve as soon as I'm around to do it. Of course, I'll have to check in once in a while, when I come home to do some laundry. Two and a half weeks is way too long to not do laundry!!

WIP Progress:

Well, now that I've finished the Mystery Stole 3, I can concentrate on getting some socks knitted... Yeah, right.... So, here is the list of things I'm taking: Nagini yarn and pattern to restart, Gansey socks to work on, Basket weave sock and note paper to finish knitting and writing up, Bellatrix socks to work on, Yarn to make Dobby socks for a gift for a friend, yarn to make a cat themed scarf (week in the life of a knitter's cat scarf patterns from Blackberry Ridge http://www.blackberry-ridge.com/ctwkscrf.htm - I also plan to soon make http://www.blackberry-ridge.com/catsday.htm as well, but seem to have misplaced the pattern, which someone gifted me), and I'm also taking along a UFO - my "Sheharazade" (sp probably wrong) stole from last year's Mystery Stole 2. I only seem to have gotten about twenty or so rows into it, so I don't even have a picture. It doesn't look like much at all at this point... Anyway - I'm going to try to finish that one. Don't want to lose the lace bug before the "Secret of Chrysopolis" starts at the end of September!!

Cat Story and Picture as Promised:

Sounds heard at our house: Jingle jingle jingle.... chirpymeow, chirpymeow.... thumpy thimpy thumpy....purrrrr puuurrrrr pppppuuuuurrrrrrrrr

Seen to go with those sounds: Dog waking from nap, shaking head and rattling dog tags on collar, cat waking or being alerted to location of dog, making a happy chirping meow sound, then running to the dog, poor dog trying to take more than one step without a cat rubbing her face, muzzle, and neck....

Not ever seen before - dog finally giving up, laying down, and:

Never mind the stuff on the floor behind the dog, or anything... I just thought it was sooo cute - I've never seen Ashleigh cuddle up to Spud before. I've seen Mica do it plenty, but never Ashleigh. She may have done it, during the night, or when I've been out... But this time, I got to see it. :) They are just soooo cute together :)

(And, if you are interested, the yellow bag behind Spud? That is a tote style bag, that I am using as a purse, and the yellow kitty slippers I mentioned in the first bit match it... it also has a matching umbrella)

So - I shall leave you now with a wish that you all have a great two weeks, and I'll post all sorts of progress pics when I get back... Maybe even some finished project pics!! And, maybe even some more wildlife pics.... I know I have some of a baby turtle that I havent shared yet, and maybe a few butterfly, some caterpillars...

Shoe Story plus....

Ok, the shoe story will be long - those of you who aren't interested, scroll on down to the picture... I'll be posting a bit about other stuff, too...

Now, I may repeat myself a bit, but:

I spent most of my adult life owning two pairs of footwear. Winter boots and "indoor shoes". The indoor shoes were usually something along the lines of heels, to wear with dressy clothes, or when I was volunteering at a school/becoming a teacher. Need to set an example for the kids and all that... so, the shoes did double duty, really. Besides, I have weird feet, and need heels for comfort....more on that later....

Eventually, we started doing things like planting a garden. Now, heels and soft dirt or mud do *not* get along.... I was forced to get "running shoes". Now, running shoes are not my favourite foot wear - for many reasons. They don't have heels is the biggest thing. But, besides that, "running shoes" refers to the footwear that is normally made of canvas tops with rubber (or rubberlike) soles. When I was little, this was what all kids wore - well, all girl kids. The boys had black high-tops. Later, when I was a teen, "track shoes" became the popular choice. These were more comfortable, in my opinion, but they were also expensive... I rarely got to own them, until I became an adult. So, this was what I wore/wear. I then had three pairs of footwear - winter boots (replaced when the holes in the sole made for cold wet feet - about every two or three years), heels (replaced as needed) and running shoes.

Then I started curling. Curling is a sport played on ice, in the winter time, involving brooms and rocks.... the basic idea is you slide a rock from one end of a sheet of ice to the other, and you sweep the ice to keep it clear of debris and to help guide the rock... And, among other "extra" equipment, you can get special curling shoes. They have one shoe with a gripping sole, and one has a smooth section for sliding along while sweeping, or delivering the stone. One doesn't *Have To* have the special shoes. But one needs a decent substitute, with clean soles.... so, pair number four, again track shoes, that were dedicated to curling. When they showed signs of wear, or the gardening shoes needed replacing, the "curling shoes" wo8uld be re-assigned to garden shoes, and the new ones went with the curling stuff.

Indoor shoe replacement at one point resulted in shoes that were only semi-dressy. Meaning, they were fine for daytime or casual slacks, but not for evening out dress. Enter - the dressy sandals. Heels, of course.... nice strappy things.

Eventually, though, straps break, heels wear down.... all that sort of thing. Shoes are bought and replaced... preferably on sale....

So - I was now up to: Winter Boots, Indoor Shoes, Dressy shoes, two pairs track shoes.
Lifestyle changes are terrible, aren't they? Fills up the closet real fast...

Eventually, I stopped curling. Cost, knees giving out, politics, all made the game not so enjoyable. Was able to wittle down the collection to only one pair of track shoes at one time.
Then, there was the one year, where I wore out my indoor shoes - but couldn't afford to replace them. So, I was wearing the heels for any must dress up affair, (or the winter boots, depending on season) and the track shoes for anything else. Well, when I say I need heels..... If it is a cool summer, where I can't go barefoot, and I find myself wearing the track shoes (flat soled) most of the time - I end up limping by August.... I invariably put my foot down, heel down, and pull the back of my leg bad enough to hurt - and usually, by mid August, have managed to twist an ankle. Which results in pain and swelling that lasts until mid-September, when I can get away with wearing the winter boots with heels....

That hasn't happened for a few years, now, though, because......

As I get older, I've found that my internal furnace has been keeping me warm enough that I either spend my summers in bare feet, and walk on my toes, or I invested in a pair of everyday sandals. Not the kind that I grew up calling "thongs", which now means something entirely different, (now the foot wear is called "flipflop", a term I think is silly, but that is just me), but a pair of basic sandals, leather piece aross the top of the foot, flat bottom. BUT - these ones have some shaping to the foot part - they are flat on the bottom, but the part that holds your foot is shaped... so, they don't bother my ankles and legs so much.

Last year, the sandals wore out, which was sad. But I got lucky, and found an identical replacement pair this spring!!

Also this spring... I bought my first pair of rubber boots since I was a very very very young child. As a child, I had to wear rubber boots when it rained. They were called in my youth, Wellington boots. Or Wellies. And I hated them. They were uncomfortable. And they were identical to everyone else's. There was more than one occassion that I found myself stumbling home from school in the wrong size boots, because some other kid had grabbed mine by mistake.... Righted the next day, mind you - names were written inside everyone's boots - but still, unpleasant and uncomfortable for a short time.... As soon as I was old enough to stubbornly rebel - I did. I learned to walk around puddles, jump over them, or I would wear (as I got older) my winter boots in the rain. But, a couple years ago (has it *really* been that long???) a dear friend of mine was visiting with us at our cabin, and it was a nasty rainy spring.... there was water and small ponds everywhere.... Really, you couldn't call them puddles. They were too deep and too big for that. So, we had been garage saling (or is it sailing?) and she found a pair of rubber boots to buy.... After a short discussion, she got me thinking that maybe they weren't such a bad thing after all. Well, this spring, was as rainy (if not more so) than that one.... So, I hit the store - which was almost sold out of rubber boots. I had to buy a smaller mens size pair. But, they are distinctive enough. First, they have a different colour sole than the old black and red ones I remember so vividly. They're black and green... And, to be sure - I have a rubber-marking pen, that I sketched a couple kitties onto the sides with :)

Now.... I forgot to mention, that when my son got married a few years ago, I still owned some dressy strappy shoes, but they were starting to show signs of age.... I could/can still get away with wearing them to a dressy occassion, but not as the "mother of the groom". Too much in the spotlight for that....so I had to buy a brand new pair. And, there was the time we were at the thrift store, and I found a pair of irressistable indoor shoes (lace-up style, solid heel) that I couldn't pass up, so I bought to have ready when the "current" indoor shoe (solid heel lace up) wear out....

So - here we are, up to: winter boots, rubber boots, two pair indoor shoes, everyday sandals, one pair track shoes, two pair strappy shoes, one pair heels (I think they call the style "pumps", slip on with heels?)in black, one pair in white (I forgot to mention these - I bought them for the lighter coloured clothes I wore when I was teaching, which promptly got a mark on them, so they've kind of sat in the back of the closet for ages. Unless I finally weeded them out at the last closet cleaning.... I don't recall seeing them for a while, but I *am* a packrat, so I might still have them....), and my latest purchase....

I need to backtrack a little here. For a while, some years ago now, I was working in construction. When I started out, I asked if I should get a pair of steel toe boots. I was told I didn't need them, that a good decent pair of track shoes would be fine. I bought some (needed them at that time anyway) but truthfully, it didn't ever sit well with me. I never did drop anything damaging on my feet, but still, the potential was there. (my head - now that is a different story!!)

So, this summer, we needed to do something about the back door of our cabin. It was originally supposed to be an interior door, so it didn't handle the weather well. Rather than the expense of a new door, we decided (since I had construction experience, and knew how) to rebuild the existing door. This summer, despite the cool wet rainy spring, had some wonderful hot spells. The day that I was going to be playing with wood and power tools, I put on socks, trackshoes, and long sleeved shirt, without thinking about it, until after the door was finished and I was changing into shorts and barefeet/sandals. Then, I realized how automatic it was for me to wear appropriate clothing - which came at a time when DH had been venting his frustration at how a lot of the people at the manufacturing firm where he works, were whining about having to wear their steel-toed boots in the heat - and how they wanted to wear shorts to work.....

We were planning to re-roof the cabin (still need to, but have revised the plan very recently) by the end of this summer, and after realizing how strongly I felt about the safety issue... I decided that I was going to invest in a pair of steel toed boots. Something that I would have for the rest of my life, that I could have on hand in case I ever needed them (I have on ocassion done some jobs casual like at the company DH works for, and borrow his spare boots then; or I can wear them when we go tree hunting - cutting wood for the cabin with a chainsaw).

I was hoping to buy them at the end of this month.... but got them a few weeks ago. I managed to win a small subsidiary prize on one of our lotteries, some $70, and managed to find at the thrift store a pair of boots that fit me - they'd gotten in a shipment of "seconds" - some of the leather was mottled looking on one part of the shoe - I mean, really, work boots - they are not going to stay "pretty looking" for long..... Anyway - Steel toed boots, rated for electric safety, normally worth well over a hundred bucks - for only forty dollars.

Which is why I've had footwear on my mind lately :)

OK!! Now, for those of you who slogged through that story, or who scrolled through looking for:

The mystery stole, blocked!! This is from the wing end, of course :)

I'll save the kitty story for tomorrow morning - laundry day today, after all :) And, blogger was acting up this morning, so I had to save all that typing from above, and retry this afternoon. Or I'd tell the kitty story now.... >:}

Snake in the Frog Pond

Ok, first of all... I promised a shoe story, if no one told me not to... all I got for comments was one that said to tell it. I will - but I have had one of "those" weeks, so I didn't get around to writing it all up this week. So, for now, you'll get an update. Especially of the stole, since the final clue is out today. And I've been ready for it since last Sunday!!! Yes, that is right, I got all caught up. Even though I stopped knitting long enough to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And then took my time knitting on the clues for a bit.... But I caught up.

Now, for the sock knitting: I didn't do enough to make a difference to any pictures of the gansey sock. I did two rounds.... I'm having "issues" with the needle size and the cable needle size - I think I'll use a friend's idea, and use a darning needle instead of a cable needle. It only involves one stitch, but on such tiny needles, I don't want to try that dropping thing... I forget the blog link, whether it was the Euny Jang or another of those expert knitter people's blogs... anyway, someone out there has a tutorial on knitting one or two stitch cables without a cable needle, which involves dropping the stitch, knitting around it, then picking it back up onto the needle... I know that it can work, but for my eyesight and natural tension...

Anyway - the basket weave sock is done the heel flap...

And the Bella socks are a little longer:

Now - remember my "rant" a few posts back, about the sock yarns that are self striping, and you buy them in the same dyelot, and you start them both from the center, and if you want them to match, you have to line up the repeats, and how I gave up on such things, and how I knitted DH a pair of brown selfstripey socks from the "new" yarn, Fabel? And how the stripes were reversed? Take a close look at the Bella socks.....

I still love the hand of the yarn. I mean, it has camel fibre in it, for cryin' out loud....

Anyway - that brings me to Nagini. The snake socks. I worked on turning the heel last weekend.

Then, I spent some time this week working on the leg- adjusting the stitch count by decreasing four stitches so the pattern would line up. I had hoped to do that during the heel decreasing - but it didn't work out that way. So, I found myself disguising the decreases by doing them in the twist of the cable - hidden very nicely, if I do say so.

The pattern repeat is over 8 rows, and the pattern calls for 64 rows, or 8 repeats for the leg. I did four, then tried on the sock last night. Or, should I say, I tried to try on the sock. The leg portion wouldn't go over my heel. I pulled, I pushed, I stretched, I twisted, I turned......

So, now there is going to be a snake heading to the frog pond.

This is not as traumatic an experience as it once would have been. I would have been upset, considered the whole thing a waste, been angry about the time spent....

Admittedly, to a point, I'm getting to an age where I'm looking at the SABLE (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy) and the PABLE - (Pattern ....... ) and I'm trying to cut back and behave more realistically.... BUT - in this case, I considered the knitting enjoyable - I like the Nagini pattern. I like the HP stories.... I like the cable pattern, and how it is working up. I like the Trekking yarn. I learned that I DISLIKE, STRONGLY DISLIKE, Addi Turbo needles. In general - I mentioned that I did like the cable in a review post before - but I don't like the needle part. And I'm particularly annoyed at their packaging - OK, so when I bought them from the store, there was a slight "issue" with the size request - I asked for size 2. Since I'd be trying them on socks at some point. I was given a package, that at the last second, I realized were 2 mm size. Which is not what I wanted... but at the time, my mind went blank on the conversion of size 2. Which is 2.75 mm. So... I managed, at least, to indicate that I meant US size 2, not 2 mm needles. I was given a different package, which I didn't really look super close at, until later. Much later.... They felt "big" in my hands. A few times.... Well, what with discovering my error in stitch count, well... I happen to be reading the package again, though for some other reason, and the little size tag part caught my eye - it said it was US size 2 or 3.0 mm.

It is amazing how a fraction of a mm can have such a huge effect on a finished product. I know that EZ, or Elizabeth Zimmerman once used four different dpns to make a sock, to prove that overall it didn't matter - and that might be true if at least one of the dpns is the "right" size, or one is smaller and another larger, so that in the end they cancel each other out and balance out... which was the point.... BUT - if the whole sock is made on larger needles, then the whole sock will be large.

One of my "little tricks" is to make a sock in size 2 US needles for me, and the same pattern/same yarn in size 3 US needles for DH. Works for us.... (2 US = 2.75 mm, 3 US = 3.25 mm)

For what it is worth, I have the same sort of size discrepancy problem with thread crochet hooks/patterns - but since I mostly make doilies and such, I don't worry about it. Much.

Anyway - the end result is - I now will be frogging the Nagini sock, and restarting it, on smaller needles and with the correct number of stitches. And I won't be making a mistake on the foot, so she won't have a scar on her neck anymore .

And I won't be purchasing any more Addi Turbo needles, at over $20 per....

Shawls, Shoes, Socks....

Go ahead - say it three times fast :)

Ok, shawls: Well, technically, stole I guess. But then I couldn't do the alliterative title .

I finished clue five, before clue six was up. :) I got all caught up!!! I like the twist, or turn, or different direction the stole is taking. What I don't like, I must confess, is the theme....

Ok, there is a "wing" on the end of the stole. We are knitting short rows, and connecting them to the body of the stole in the same way as a knitted on edging is done. Simple enough. And looks cool, too... I like the way it is shaping up. Sorry - no pun intended there. Anyway - progress pic:

Now, what I don't like: The theme is "Swan Lake". I know the music of the ballet, and I have some recollections of seeing the ballet - either on TV, or perhaps when I was much younger (think 5 or 6 yrs old - I remember going to watch a ballet on some school related free ticket or some such - maybe not the whole ballet, maybe just some selected dances or something). However, until Melanie discussed it as her inspiration for the design, I didn't really know the story. Now that I do - I don't like the story. Somehow, it strikes me as too depressing - too tragic. I do recall a similar story - someone else knitting the stole also mentioned it - the seven swans story - about a girl who had to spin and make shirts for her seven bewitched brothers - also a tragic story, as she couldn't quite finish. Anyway - either story is depressing. So, I'm going to think of my stole as being either a bee stole or a dragon stole. I mean, the pattern can work for those, too - the winged dragon.... or the cat's paw section could reperesent my kitties chasing a bee through a garden, and the feathered wing would be a bird....

Of course, the pattern itself is very lovely - which is why I can't bring myself to associate something so beautiful (the stole) with something so ugly (the story). I mean, I will still listen to and enjoy the music - been way too many years of that up to now to have it spoiled - but I won't really follow any of the story behind the ballet.

Shoes - well, I wanted to wax poetic about the fact that I now own more shoes than probably before in my life - all put together, even. I mean, at one time, I was content to own a pair of winter boots, and a pair of indoor shoes.

Ok.... I just deleted a bunch of what I was writing - since I discovered that I am not going to have enough time to write it all out, and still show off pictures of the socks progress.... So - I'll have to do a post again next week, and wax poetic (or babble senselessly) about shoes. Maybe... unless a bunch of people send me comments over the weekend telling me they don't want to read about my shoe collection.... that I never thought I'd ever have one of, since two or even one pair of shoes got me through most situations for a very long time....

So. On to socks....

Four pairs of socks on the needles right now. Basket weave - up to the heel flap of sock number two, and six sox knitalong group's current (Aug./Sept.) sock, I Love Gansey Socks - finished cuff and set up ready to start the patterning knitting:

Bellatrix - Yeah, I couldn't help myself. Had to start them - and they are already working up neat... :)

And Nagini. Working the gusset increases....

Ok, I've started some toe-up socks in the past. But for one reason or another, they have found their way to the UFO pile... so I've never really gotten past the toes before. This is my first true experience with toe ups.

I have been having fun with the side-benefit - the part where you can try them on as you go. I've been slipping it onto my foot every few repeats of the pattern....

I mentioned once before about how I made a little mistake - and how I wasn't going to fix it. Well, turns out -

I've made another bigger mistake. See, I was checking how many stitches I had... figuring out how many more rows to end up with the number the pattern said....trying the sock on, and thinking that I wasn't going to get where I was supposed to be.... flipped the page back... realized that I was supposed to do the toe increases until I had 36 stitches on the top and 36 stitches on the bottom.... Ooops.... I have 32 on the top, 32 on the bottom.....

Explains why the repeats of the cable pattern weren't quite working out even for me....

Now - I have options. Tear the whole thing out, and start over with the right number. Continue on with the gusset until I get the right number. Neither of these appeal to me -- Yes, restarting would mean an opportunity to fix the boo-boo. BUT - if I were to have made the sock with 36 stitches on each side, then the sock would be way too big for me - because I know that it fits "just right" right now. If I did a restart, I'd have to find smaller needles.... which I know are all busy. Besides, this is the sock I'm testing the Addi Turbo on, and I only own the one of those needles....

My other option, to continue as is, might mean ending up with a sock with a baggy ankle ... also probably will end up too long, too....

So - I'm going to continue, but I"m going to have to do some math. I'm going to stop increasing the gusset when it is "time", then I'll recalculate the heel turn numbers, and the heel flap part, and carry on. When I get to the leg, though - I'm going to have to cut out four stitches... so that the cable patterning will all line up around the leg. Otherwise... it won't look good at all!!! There is a 12 stitch repeat - so, I have to either add 8 stitches in, or take four out. 8 in will give me a baggy slouching leg part, so I'll just have to decrease four stitches out, then I'll have a slightly snug leg. But that I can live with.

*sigh*.... should have paid more attention in the first place. Oh, well... maybe I'll come across some more snake inspiring yarn one day, and make a second, correct, pair of Nagini socks!!

Updates updates Wips and stuffs

Ok: The WIP list: Mystery Stole 3 - half finished clue four, which was two charts. So, I've completed one of them. Picture to follow.... I laid the stole out on my freezer in my porch. I went to pick up the camera, and there appeared a cat. Ashleigh loves the camera.... Which is why I end up with so many pictures of her to post.... Anyway - I couldn't take a good progress picture, because there was a cat on it. So, I don't have a close up like I usually try for. Now, after the pictures were taken, she sat on the stole. There is NO WAY I was going to try to remove her - I didn't need claws appearing and snagging any of that hard work. So, I left her.... she curled up and went to sleep, spending the better part of the day on the stole. Finally, she got up - I went to make sure that there were no "accidents" during a waking stretch. No snags. BUT - I guess she figured that since I was almost done with that ball of yarn, I should just start a fresh ball.... she bit through the yarn tail!!!! At least, though, she's left me about four or six inches of tail to weave in, lol..... Not sure if the picture shows that bit or not.... haven't looked that close. Anyway: Pictures:

Now, for the clue pictures: I can't remember if I posted a finished picture of clue three yet... I think I might have, but here it is again.

And clue four half - um, clue three and a half? clue half four? mid point of clue four? Uh....

Ok. Now for the socks story.....

WIP socks. 1. Basket Weave: Have begun the leg of sock number two. Am working on writing it up, and posting it to blog. Not this blog... I've started a pattern blog. There is only the leg directions there now, so I'm not sharing the link just yet... when the sock is finished, or at least, the writing is finished, I'll tell you where to find it.

2. Nagini. Am at the gusset increases - it is a toe up sock - and I really need to concentrate. Took it with me to my knit meet-up the other night. I took the stole, the basket weave sock, and Nagini, 'cause I wasn't sure what I wanted to/would be able to work on. Depended on the crowd size. Anyway - I did some of Nagini there... Not easy to keep track of where I was, while chatting and stuff, so it was sssslllloooowww going....

3. Yes, there is a three.... Since I had packed up all my WIP's for the knit meet - I had nothing to work on for an hour... so I cast on for Bellatrix. I'm doing Bella' on two circs; two much disliked circs. They are "Aero" brand, and they have a "flat spot" on the cable. I ran into something similar with Susan Bates needles - but they had flat spots on the needle itsself. Right near where the cable joined the needle. So, it made for very annoying knitting - sliding stitches over the flat spot wasn't easy.... Ok, for those who aren't familiar with these brands of needles, in the smaller sizes (2 US, 2.5 or 2.75 mm) there seems to be a problem with the join of the cable to needle - I guess when they crimped them together, or whatever they do, there is a flat part, that caused the needle to have a bulge - If you have ever made a "snake" from dough (bread or play kind) then pressed it down, it bulges out the side - so you have a spot that is wider than the rest. Anyway - I used these Aero needles anyway.... ** more about needles in a bit....

4. Of course there is a 4.... Six Sox Knitalong group's sock for August/September is a Gansey sock. I have been meaning to make a gansey sock..... or socks.... I cast on for one last night. Just cast on - haven't even divided the stitches onto the four needles yet, lol....

So.... that is where I'm at.... have socks on all my needles, am resisting the urge to buy more needles so I can cast on more socks - I'm not even looking in my dpn box to see if I happen to have a set still empty..... Otherwise, I might find Fawkes on them....

**Now - about needles.... I really like the Wrights/Boye needles. (and crochet hooks, but that would be another post....) I mean, I *REALLY* love Boye needles. I have used other brands - Bates, Aero, and I even finally invested in an Addi Turbo Circular in size 2. Nagini is on that one. Well.... I do admit, that I like the Addi cable. Very flexible. Nice. Smooth. But, I really don't like the needles. I don't like the feel, don't like the point, don't like the sound.... I realized that they don't "click"...then I happened to read that they are made not to click. I don't like that.... I like the rhythmic clicking of knitting needles. And it usually isnt' that loud - except on the Aeros.... DH only ever complains about the clicking of the needles when I would use my Aero straights for anything.....

The biggest problem - it is very very very hard to find smaller sized needles, especially in circs. around here. Boye makes them - but no one here carries them. Except in the Boye Needlemaster. I have one of those - *one* of those... I need to invest in a second set. :)

Next post - If I remember, that is - will be about shoes. Why not? I've written enough about socks