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.