Monday, July 11, 2011

Week 2...once you go round you never rebound?

"Two of us riding nowhere/Spending someone's hard earned pay" -The Beatles ♪
Such a great photographer I am!
          Week two means upgrade! LYS decided it was time for me to graduate from flimsy cheap straights to circular metal addi turbos. Cha ching!

          I'm glad I bought these, because I learned that the quality of addi turbo needles are excellent. That being said, at about $16 a pop, there's no way I can afford to buy each needle in their varying lengths. Then the owner of the LYS showed me the interchangeable addi clicks. I was astonished- this is the perfect solution! One set of each size and choose whatever length cord you want! The one problem? The price tag. As a brand new knitter, I really don't want to sink $175 into a set of needles.

          The project chosen to christen my shiny new needles was a simple hat (again, yarn from the random family stash). My first project in the round started as 6 inches of 2x2 ribbing, continued as stockinette, and taught me how to decrease.

Yes, this yarn has a sparkle thread going through it.
I'm 20 and I love glitter, so what?

In case you wanted to kinda see the inside of it.
          Now, as I decreased I had to switch over to double pointed needles. What. The. Hell. Absolutely not! I can't afford to buy every size needle in DPN form! I borrowed the shops size 8 and I absolutely hated using 4 needles, switching after every 15 stiches, counting and recounting and coming out wrong every time...they were not for me. I needed a way to knit small things in the round without DPNs. Right then and there I decided learning magic loop was a must.

          So I started looking online, researching needles and techniques...and the natural OCD personality in me began writing a list of "things to learn". Yes, everybody in knitting class makes fun of me for it. But I want to learn as much as possible while I can!! In class, I write almost everything my knitting teachers say down. The teacher jokes that it makes her nervous, but as we learned in nursing 101 documentation is everything! Knowing me, if I don't write it down I will never remember it again.

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3 comments:

  1. deepbluerenegadeJuly 11, 2011 at 9:56 PM

    It is a charming hat.

    You know I went 4 years only owning a circular size 6, and then some DPNs in 6, 2 years before I needed more needles because I learned how to read patterns.

    Good luck with magic loop, if you have trouble you can try 2 circs instead.

    Molly : )

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  2. AmyJuly 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Hi Jamie, found your blog on ravelry! Love the sparkly hat! Don't feel too bad - I'm almost 28 and I still love sparkly things too. The Addi's are wonderful...once you get hooked on them you won't want to use anything else. I use them as straight needles too.
    Did you use the Magic Loop to make your hat? If so, you shouldn't need to use DPNs (which I have never ever had to use yet) on the decreases :) Good luck!
    -Amy

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  3. JJuly 12, 2011 at 6:07 AM

    Thanks!!

    My mom makes fun of me all the time, but I never got over the glitter phase in my life. I try to avoid it in clothes, but everything else is fair game!

    I didn't use magic loop for the hat- I told my teachers I wanted to learn but they wanted me to experience DPNs first. I'm glad they did, because now I don't have the curiosity to try them out later.

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