{"id":726,"date":"2007-10-03T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=726"},"modified":"2007-10-03T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T12:31:11","slug":"mail-gloves-and-socks-on-two-circs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Mail, gloves and socks on two circs."},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, Jejune<\/a> had a competition, and I was one of the lucky winners.
\nToday my very lovely prize arrived.
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\nA packet of her very lovely Knitting Art cards, and some Lindt chocolate. The lindt is long gone, and I think the cards are far too pretty to write on! Thank you, Jejune!
\nEm had another dance comp on the weekend. This is becoming aomewhat of a pain in the arse, because they always seem to end up on the last weekend of the month lately, preventing me from attending Stitch n Bitch<\/a>. But that’s not what I’m whining about tonight.
\nI had a ton of stuff to drag along, so I decided to only take along the gloves that match the cabled beanie for my knitting project.
\nIt was pretty important that I have some knitting to do, because she had one dance at 9.45am, then nothing until 2.15pm, then another big break until 5pm.
\nAfter her first dance I sat down and merrily started to knit away on the first glove. I’d started the cuff at home the night before, and was up to the hand. I’ve got few problems with the pattern. It was written to be knit flat and seamed, and I hate knitting gloves that way, so I’d already rewritten the pattern to be knitted in the round. I was using 3.75mm needles, because it’s 8ply (DK) yarn, and I always<\/em> need to knit 8ply on 3.75mm needles to get gauge.
\nCan you see where this is going?
\nSo I was knitting the hand, with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was huge. I’m pretty sure she could have got both hands inside this glove. It was only 10.30am. I finished the thumb gusset, and tried it on her.
\nHuge doesn’t even come close. Gigantic. Gargantuan.
\nWhen I thought about it, I wasn’t really surprised. Her hand is 6.5 inches around the knuckles. The glove is knit at 22sts = 4 inches.
\nThere were 41 stitches in the hand.
\nPlus my gauge was off. Even without the gauge issue, it was going to be nearly 8 inches around. When I measured it, the glove was coming out at around 9 inches around. So I frogged it in a temper and had to sit, all day long, with no knitting.
\nI should have taken a backup. I have learned my lesson, I swear.
\nSo when I got home, I went down to 3.25mm needles, and rewrote the pattern again.
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\nIt’s looking much more realistic now.
\nAnd alas, it’s not the only knitting difficulty I’ve had this week.
\nI’m struggling along on the sock on two circs. I got two 40cm KnitPicks Options circs from YarnsOnline<\/a>, thinking they’d be easier to use. They’re not. Not for me at any rate. the needle portion feels too short. I think I should have gone for the 60cm.
\nBut that doesn’t explain my difficulty with this whole 2 circs process.
\nToday I came up with a new problem. Once again, all my stitches ended up one one needle. But this wasn’t Magic Loop.
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\nNeed a better look?
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\nI not only picked up the wrong needle, but somehow I also twisted the needle.
\nAren’t I clever? I’m thinking I need to go back to the DPNS. And soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, Jejune had a competition, and I was one of the lucky winners. Today my very lovely prize arrived. A packet of her very lovely Knitting Art cards, and some Lindt chocolate. The lindt is long gone, and I think the cards are far too pretty to write on! Thank you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}