Hurting Hands

October 28th, 2006

I was going to write a post a week or two ago about the Christmas gift that I’m knitting with the Alpaca & Silk yarn. It was going to be all rant-y, and complaining about the knit on the project being hell, and it was. Instead of writing about it I stewed for this little bit, and took my time to decide that if knitting something was causing me so much discomfort, then I should stop knitting it.

I’m still knitting the Christmas gift, as you can see, but I’ve changed the decorative ribbing to something less painful on my fingers. This yarn has very little stretch, so doing the twisted stitches to get the beautiful zig-zag rib on these gloves was killing me. For the sake of my hands (and my sanity, good god it took hours to get just a few rows) I changed the ribbing to a k2,p2 shifting rib. Muuuch happier hands. Muuuch more progress as of today.

On the spinning front, I’ve finished my second yarn. I can never figure out quite how I should say this. I’ve spun yarn for the second time? That doesn’t really convey the time it takes to create a full…something of yarn. I’ve spun my second skein of yarn? It’s only a skein if it’s not a ball, or some lump of yarn which it is now. I’ve spun my second batch of yarn? We’re not baking cookies here.

Anyways, it’s done. I plied the thinner bunch that I did early on, and kept the second half as singles. I’m going to use both to knit a winter hat, which will be so wonderful to wear when it is complete. I can’t tell you of the anticipated satisfaction I’m feeling right now! I will admitt though, that I’m feeling slightly trepidatious about knitting a hat without a pattern for the first time. I know I can do it, but using handspun yarn to do so makes things a little more uneasy. All will be well, right?

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