Why I love my knitting group August 24, 2006 ~ 10:14 am
Posted by Julie in : Craftiness Is Next To Godliness , trackbackQuote of the week:
“There needs to be more bitching in this group. I mean, we’ve got the “stitch” part of Stitch n Bitch down, but we don’t have enough “bitch.”"
That being said, there was much bitching from my corner of the couch last night as I tried to make one ball of yarn into two center-pull balls so someone could teach me the Magic Loop method of sock-making. If I can master this, it will totally eliminate Second Sock Syndrome because you make both socks at the same time on one circular needle.
Two things realized last night: one, Julie will be buying herself a ball-winder for her birthday if no one else does, because hand winding yarn is a pain in my ass. Two, you can totally garrote someone with a 40″ Addi Turbo circular needle.
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I’m not sure which is scarier: You with a yarn winder or with a circular needle. Both sound potentially dangerous.
Vince~I will oblige you with a menacing picture of me and my Addi Turbos.
Duuuuude! I want to learn that magic loop sock making method, but it looks so freaking confusing!
(Nice header, btw. You did change your header, didn’t you? Did you? I mean, I think it looks different. God I’m gonna feel like a dork if I only JUST looked at it!)
Aimee~It was tres confusing at first, but then it clicked. It will be much easier to understand if I haven’t had three bottles of cider before attempting it, too. And yes, the header changed. It was the NYC skyline, now it’s a happy little forest. Not to be confused with Forrest, my next-door neighbor. Who is happy, but not little.