cwBlog

I made a major decision yesterday, and it's one of those decisions where there's no way to know which one will turn out right, so you have to go with your gut instincts. I went back and forth for about a week, thinking yes, thinking no, trying to rationalize what my instincts said. This has left my nerves just a little bit jangly, and making the decision has calmed them down a little, but not much. And on top of it, I had the scratchy sore throat feeling yesterday that shows I'm coming down with a cold. So I've been knitting kind of compulsively.

And the beneficiary has been the first Knitivity sock:

Fortunately, the yarn seems to have forgiven me for my earlier lies to it.

I finally settled on a gauge of 9 stitches per inch on 2mm steel needles. I'm experimenting with more negative ease than I usually use, so I'm knitting this sock on 80 stitches. I cast on 10 stitches with the Turkish cast-on; the instructions given there are for working it on circular needles. It was a bit of a pain on dpns, but I made it work on the second try, and it's easy enough to see how it works. I worked a round toe and got it up to 80 stitches, then knit 50 rounds for the foot. Now I'm ready to start the heel.

The colors in the sock are just as rich but a lot more subdued than I would have thought based on the hank. I like the black and red stripes spiraling up the sock; this is something that Opal Rainforest Zebra and Opal Rainforest Tiger both did, and I liked it when they did it too. The yarn itself is a little bit splitty, which means I can't quite knit by touch; it has a similar feel to Austermann Step in that regard.

So far I'm quite pleased with this yarn. We'll see how the sock continues.