Socktoberfest #6
Oct. 5th, 2006 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI promised a picture of how I knit two socks at one time without doing anything cool like knitting one sock inside the other one or something called the magic loop but instead using a botched mess involving one really long addi turbo circular and five bamboo DPNs (two for each sock and one for a working needle).
I don't know that you'll be able to get a lot from this, but basically, both socks are strung partly on the long circular and partly on short DPNs. I knit the first sock around (starting with the circular portion) and then the first portion of the second sock is ready to work on the circular. The only problem that I really have is with the stitches turning inside out before the ribbing really gets established. (This screws everything up and because it's ribbing, fabric reverses non-obviously.)
To keep things straight, I mark the outside surface of the "first" sock with a contrasting yarn (the purple fuzzy yarn on the top of the left hand socklet) and the outside of the second sock with a non-contrasty yarn that is not particularly visible in the picture below. That way, I know what side is the outside and don't flip stuff unintentionally. Marking things also helps me know what sock to start with when I pick the thing up. I do my knitting with these in full circuits so that every time I put it away, it will be ready for me to start again on the circular section of the first sock.
And yes, rather a lot of the letters are worn off of the laptop keyboard. That's not the camera fucking up. The letters A, S, D, E, C, V, M, N, and L are gone. The letters F, V, B, and K are showing serious wear -- shoddy Vaio workmanship.
I don't know that you'll be able to get a lot from this, but basically, both socks are strung partly on the long circular and partly on short DPNs. I knit the first sock around (starting with the circular portion) and then the first portion of the second sock is ready to work on the circular. The only problem that I really have is with the stitches turning inside out before the ribbing really gets established. (This screws everything up and because it's ribbing, fabric reverses non-obviously.)
To keep things straight, I mark the outside surface of the "first" sock with a contrasting yarn (the purple fuzzy yarn on the top of the left hand socklet) and the outside of the second sock with a non-contrasty yarn that is not particularly visible in the picture below. That way, I know what side is the outside and don't flip stuff unintentionally. Marking things also helps me know what sock to start with when I pick the thing up. I do my knitting with these in full circuits so that every time I put it away, it will be ready for me to start again on the circular section of the first sock.
And yes, rather a lot of the letters are worn off of the laptop keyboard. That's not the camera fucking up. The letters A, S, D, E, C, V, M, N, and L are gone. The letters F, V, B, and K are showing serious wear -- shoddy Vaio workmanship.
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Date: 2006-10-07 12:35 am (UTC)Also, why the heck didn't I ever think of using the 2-layers-in-1 trick (yeah, the one that was so painful that my socks languish to this day as little toes without socks on them) to do socks *inside each other*? That is way cooler than "now I can knit them on straights".