Magic...

Fearlessly I started with magic looping. For hats, like this Ganome it is a welcome techinique, since you do not have to switch to dpn. Instead, you just pull the string out between a pair of stitches somewhere in your work and voila, Magic Loop.




Socks are possibly also made by Magic Looping. I started them but alas! this is not for me. The troubles with avoiding gaps and the tension in the circular needle became to much for me. I guess it is easier with a smooth cable between the needles, but I do not have a smooth circular. So I gave that up. I considered switching to doing one sock at a time on two circulars, but then I figured I just could insert one of those (short) circulars on each sock and thus knit two socks at one time on three circular needles. Hence the spaghetti on the picture. I know what I am doing, though.


Hat: handspun (not by me) found in a thrift shop, handdyed with food colouring, Elizabeth Zimmerman Knitting Almanac: Ganome hat. needle 5.5.
Socks: Overdyed inherited sock yarn, overall anatomy of sock: Yarnissimas Firestarter, twisted stitch pattern by me, inspired by Bäuerliches Stricken, needles: 2,5

Ignatia

Ignatia is basically a firestarter with a different twisted stitch pattern. The pattern is broader, so I had to make some changes other places too, and I have bit feet, so these socks are larger and wider than the original firestarter.

To date the best socks I have made. Up to the next pair...

Ignatia

Ignatia is basically a firestarter, the pattern written by Yarnissima.

The cable of the original firestarter is changed to one I found in 'Bäuerliches Stricken'. As in my first firestarters, I knit over 64 st. The cable (from p. 67, if you have the book), has a repeat over 18 needles, so I am doing 2.5 repeats and land at a point where it can be divided into two equal parts that will continue along the gusset. All other directions as in the firestarter.

I bought the yarn in 'The golden fleece' in Santa Cruz, CA.

The firestarter started a fire: Socks and twisted stitches are a lot on my mind (and in my fingers) nowadays.

Oh and yeah, happy new year of course....