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August 16, 2004
An unimpressive start
Well, it's good thing that the response to the "Herculean Effort" was not large. It wouldn't look good if the hostess couldn't get her own project off the ground!
I decided that a pair of socks might be do-able, and decided to venture away from the same old boring sock recipe. So I got out Nancy Bush's Knitting on the Road and noticed that the Canal Du Midi sock would fit my gauge and size just perfectly!
The pattern makes use of traveling stitches. I actually didn't realize that when I started the sock; after a few rows in pattern, I thought to myself "hey, these look like traveling stitches!" Brilliant deduction there, Sherlock. I had a bad experience with traveling stitches a couple of years ago, and I had I known they were the basis of this pattern, I never would have attempted it. Anyway, they come much easier to me now and perhaps I will have another go at the sweater pattern I previously abandoned (it was called the Austrian Stitch Cardigan.)
Choosing the road less traveled, I'm doing the pattern toe-up and on circular needles - even though the pattern calls for neither. No matter - only minor modifications needed. I'm about halfway up the foot.
The problem is that this yarn is too busy for the stitch pattern, I think. The stitches would show up so much better with a solid color yarn.
I'm debating whether to continue.
And I'm asking myself, why am I continuing to pursue texture knitting instead of colors? I keep wanting to get going on a fair isle project. I'm going to start shopping around for a good kit, to save myself the hassle of color selection, which I'm no good at anyway.