…but I left my sock knitting project bag sitting on the table at home. Whoops. As I tweeted earlier today, I had been doing a little grumble in my head about knitting socks for an individual with wide feet and muscular calves, but the truth is that my sock-knitting attention span is shorter than any sock larger than one intended for the average human infant. I’ve been thinking that I could speed up this project by using circular needles (so I could take it on the city bus without worrying about dropping a dpn and having it roll away from me). So far: I don’t know the size of the dpns I’m using. I don’t have a needle gauge that goes down to that fine a gauge (have asked that someone who does bring it to tomorrow’s Aloha Knitters meetup; I’ll be at the Bubbies University Ave. location from 8 pm on). I don’t know what brand of needles I want to buy. I am an Addi Turbo girl, but my budget is not allowing for $30+ to be spent on a pair of circs (yes, I could cut that to $15 by using Magic Loop, but I don’t like it). Hiya Hiya sock circs have gotten good reviews, but I’ve never seen them in person (or I have, and have forgotten).

I’m using Elizabeth Bennett’s Perl Sock Program (and this makes me giggle like you would not believe, because there is a backstory involving the person I am knitting these for, and why I even know what Perl is), along with Ysolda Teague’s Tubular Cast On for 2×2 rib, which just may convert me to knitting socks from the top-down. I prefer toe-up, but this time around I’ve got plenty of yarn – am striping with two skeins of Malabrigo Sock, which is 440 yards per skein – so unless I plan on making thigh-highs, I am in no danger of running out of yarn. The cast-on is lovely, with a nice clean line and just enough stretch for my taste. The only trouble is that this means I’ll be Kitchenering a toe, and I do not enjoy doing that. Yes, I am aware I could do a circular closure, but I am hesitant to try that on socks I’m not going to be wearing. I’ll just suck it up and Kitchener away – or get Vron to do it for me :D

For now, I’ll just keep enjoying my mocha and salty chocolate cookies at Satura Cakes.

Ravelry project link