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ambericaI went to the first of a 2-session sock (knitting) class last night. It was very nice, fun, and relaxing! The class consisted of just 3 people - myself, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
onewomanshow, and another gal who was in the mittens class that I missed. And Trish, the instructor, of course.
I finally learned how to do a figure-8 cast on, which is GREAT, because I had seen instructions for it online but never really "got it" until Trish showed us how. It took a couple tries to get it right, and then I decided to start over when I accidentally twisted some weird stitch beyond where I wanted to try to salvage it, and I kind of cast on "backwards" - kind of. It's hard to explain. Basically I did it so that instead of knitting into the back of the stitches on the TOP needle, I did those regular and knit into the backs of the BOTTOM stitches. It went all fine and dandy, but then when I had gotten some length worked up, I went back to tighten up all the initial toe stitches and there was a goofy little hole at the end of the cast-on row! I can only assume it's because I did that backwards cast-on. I was just going to patch it when I wove in the yarn end, but then later I realized that I had been doing several increases on the wrong end of one of my non-heel needles and half the top side of the toe was funny-looking. Oh it was functional and ok, but I didn't like the way the rows were not lined up symmetrically, so I decided to frog it again and start all over.
Then I dreamed all night about figure-8 casting on. LOL
I will begin again tonight, and should do fine now that I got the hard parts figured out. Lucky I didn't get too far in the first place, because I hate getting really far only to find that I have no choice but to destroy all the hard work I did becuase I did something ridiculously wrong. This was short and easy though, and the new things I've learned are definitely worth the little bit of extra time.
Hooray for socks! I will post pictures once I get started again. (Probably just starting with pics of a few inches of toe, and then more as I get further along.)
After I successfully finish my first pair of socks, I will do mittens. Actually, I've already just started the "training mitt" from Knitty (Mittens 101 found here), so we'll see how that goes. If it's not too hard, I'll dive right into full-size ones even if the socks are NOT done. Also, Tia gave me the pattern they used in her mittens class (it's different than the Knitty one) and I want to see if that one really is easier than Knitty's. She says it was super easy, and Knitty makes it look more complicated than it has to be.
onewomanshow, and another gal who was in the mittens class that I missed. And Trish, the instructor, of course.I finally learned how to do a figure-8 cast on, which is GREAT, because I had seen instructions for it online but never really "got it" until Trish showed us how. It took a couple tries to get it right, and then I decided to start over when I accidentally twisted some weird stitch beyond where I wanted to try to salvage it, and I kind of cast on "backwards" - kind of. It's hard to explain. Basically I did it so that instead of knitting into the back of the stitches on the TOP needle, I did those regular and knit into the backs of the BOTTOM stitches. It went all fine and dandy, but then when I had gotten some length worked up, I went back to tighten up all the initial toe stitches and there was a goofy little hole at the end of the cast-on row! I can only assume it's because I did that backwards cast-on. I was just going to patch it when I wove in the yarn end, but then later I realized that I had been doing several increases on the wrong end of one of my non-heel needles and half the top side of the toe was funny-looking. Oh it was functional and ok, but I didn't like the way the rows were not lined up symmetrically, so I decided to frog it again and start all over.
Then I dreamed all night about figure-8 casting on. LOL
I will begin again tonight, and should do fine now that I got the hard parts figured out. Lucky I didn't get too far in the first place, because I hate getting really far only to find that I have no choice but to destroy all the hard work I did becuase I did something ridiculously wrong. This was short and easy though, and the new things I've learned are definitely worth the little bit of extra time.
Hooray for socks! I will post pictures once I get started again. (Probably just starting with pics of a few inches of toe, and then more as I get further along.)
After I successfully finish my first pair of socks, I will do mittens. Actually, I've already just started the "training mitt" from Knitty (Mittens 101 found here), so we'll see how that goes. If it's not too hard, I'll dive right into full-size ones even if the socks are NOT done. Also, Tia gave me the pattern they used in her mittens class (it's different than the Knitty one) and I want to see if that one really is easier than Knitty's. She says it was super easy, and Knitty makes it look more complicated than it has to be.
