Off The Needles

Alpaca sox mini socks: reinforced heel, but the slipped stitches are placed in WS, not in RS as usual. Don't think it makes a difference, but interesting. I've been MLing exclusively when I knit socks, and I usually convert DPN patterns into ML. I never move my stitches around, but I realize something. Usually the toe on cuff down socks have 8 sts left before kitchenering, and in all my previous socks, The graft is placed horizontally. Only in the socks that I knit for Timothy using Ann Budd's recipe did I realize that if I move stitches around so the 4 paired decreases face each other, I get a toe that looks sturdier. It's very hard to describe intelligently >.<

What I usually did was, my beginning of round starts on the beginning of heel sts. But the new-to-me method, the BOR is shifted to the middle of heel sts. So the 4 paired decreases face each other and I think the resulting toe looks sturdier.

This is one example that in knitting there's no black and white, and not grey either, there's only an assortment of colors.

Fun: 34 Adorable Things To Do With Leftover Yarn. My faves: pompom bookmark, yarn stamp, yarn ball collage, and the tiny hedgehog!

On The Needles

Colours of Rain top. Heard a very useful tip from Twinset Designs podcast, I think it was Jan... she mentioned that when knitting ribbing in the round, when she goes to the beginning of round when she purls after a knit stitch, it gets a bit loose, so she