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Yesterday's knitting lesson turned out to be a single-student affair; the other lady who was going to come wasn't able to join us. Luckily, I got the news before I spent $10S on photocopies!
The class was a low-key affair, because E has been to our house enough times now that she knows which one is her chair, she knows there will be tea the minute she gets in, and she knows I'm never in a hurry to push forward because the company is good.
Since E already knew the basic short-row technique outlined in Simple Socks, Plain and Fancy, I went straight into teaching her to knit socks on two circular needles. To do this, we needed to have two toes turned on our two separate socks to begin.
She worked on some new wool she'd gotten in shades of purple, blue and white, and I took this opportunity to begin![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oreouk's Really Purple House Socks.
Anyway, once we had the toes turned, we slipped all the toe stitches onto one of the needles, then picked up the other half of the sock with the second needle. After that, the process is pretty straightforward, but from this point on, I will help people learn the two-needle technique with a single tube rather than two tubes! Some confusion happened, but everything was resolved to our satisfaction, and E went home with a new technique and a copy of my Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles book to borrow unti Saturday, when the Singapore knitstitch group meets again.
The Really Purple House Socks are made out of Brown Sheep Burly Spun, a super bulky wool that knits up really fast; the colour is BS62 Amethyst, and I'm getting about three stitches to the inch on US 10.5/6.5mm needles.
( We know you took a photo, Harper! )
The class was a low-key affair, because E has been to our house enough times now that she knows which one is her chair, she knows there will be tea the minute she gets in, and she knows I'm never in a hurry to push forward because the company is good.
Since E already knew the basic short-row technique outlined in Simple Socks, Plain and Fancy, I went straight into teaching her to knit socks on two circular needles. To do this, we needed to have two toes turned on our two separate socks to begin.
She worked on some new wool she'd gotten in shades of purple, blue and white, and I took this opportunity to begin
oreouk's Really Purple House Socks.Anyway, once we had the toes turned, we slipped all the toe stitches onto one of the needles, then picked up the other half of the sock with the second needle. After that, the process is pretty straightforward, but from this point on, I will help people learn the two-needle technique with a single tube rather than two tubes! Some confusion happened, but everything was resolved to our satisfaction, and E went home with a new technique and a copy of my Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles book to borrow unti Saturday, when the Singapore knitstitch group meets again.
The Really Purple House Socks are made out of Brown Sheep Burly Spun, a super bulky wool that knits up really fast; the colour is BS62 Amethyst, and I'm getting about three stitches to the inch on US 10.5/6.5mm needles.
( We know you took a photo, Harper! )
