Yesterday Leon gave his commercial sock covered feet a very sad look, so today I did a sock wash. It makes me happy, hanging out the hand knit socks, seeing the fruits of the Leon Sock Project and the Sneaker Liner Project. It makes me happy how socks are something I do mindfully, not just throwing something on my feet, but choosing the yarn, and making them with joy. Its these small things things that make everything, even doing the washing, so filled with joy.
As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...
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