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Per Linda G. Hill
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “close eyes and point.” When you’re ready to write your post, open a book, a newspaper, or whatever is handy and close your eyes, and point. Whatever word or picture your finger lands on, make that the basis of your SoCS/JusJoJan post. Enjoy!
Since I am concentrating on learning to make needle knit socks the nearest book was:
and the random page I turned to was:
There are the words in the second paragraph on the page on the left.
‘The Basic’ seems awfully simple but I have been studying this book and trying different angles to get socks done. Not so basic. I have several starts on big and little needles. But what seems to be what will be working for me, I hope, is VeryPink’s version of Two Socks-at-a-Time, Toe-up. Here is the YouTube I’ve been working on for a few days now. I’m getting reading to frog again. But I know what I did wrong and so I have learned a little more with each try.
Meanwhile, Kali is doing better. My daughter shared this picture of the day they swore her in as Kali the dog. That was before my daughter moved from her brother’s duplex to her own apartment. That was when she learned how bad Kali’s separation anxiety was. That was how Kali came to live with us where she is never alone.
What can be more basic than the swearing-in of a dog? LOL!
Mary doesn’t knit socks or anything that comes in pairs, because you finish one then realize you have to make the other. Although, she went through a phase of making fingerless gloves.
Mary is right, it is difficult to get the socks the same size. That is why I have matching looms so I can knit two at a time and am now challenged by doing them on the 42 inch cable needles so that step by step you are as close as you can get to even. I do have a sock measurer. I am horrid at counting rows as I go. But I love socks because my hands do better with them than bigger items or things that take forever to finish, like blankets or scarves. I usually have 8 or more pairs going at a time as I love the toes and heels but hate the brims. Brims are easier on needles than the loom. But I lose less stitches on the loom. I’m still not certain about how to fix mistakes on needles. Give Mary a hug for me, knitter to knitter, to Mary from Middle Name Mary.