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grafting party
March 16, 2009
Curled up under a blanket with Peter, beer on hand, watching curling and working on a sock (a perfect Sunday evening were it not for the head cold that had me drinking medicine straight from the bottle).
Knit dorks, I hear you whispering over there. Yes, I’m grafting a cuff onto a sock. Why, you ask? Well. You know those fancy stretchy bind-offs for toe up socks, like the one that has you slipping every stitch back to the left and working it twice? I just hate, hate, hate the way those look, all floppy and lumpy. I hate them so much that I’d rather knit a cuff separately (using my beloved first cast on I ever learned, which is stretchy and sturdy and handsome and I would make out with it if I could) and graft it onto the top of the sock. Two thirds of the way through grafting the first cuff I’m almost ready to revisit those bind-offs, but not quite yet. But bloody hell, this is tedious.
Posted by jodi on March 16, 2009 at 9.04am
Categories: it's only sticks and string
Comments on "grafting party"
You can cuddle and drink beer and cough medicine straight out of the bottle while grafting a long seam? Wow. I have to retreat to the cone of solitude whenever I have to graft anything longer than three stitches.
Posted by Ragnar on March 16, 2009 at 11.16am :: link
HA! So funny – I feel the same way about those bind-offs. I find myself doing similar things that are more work but I’m too lazy to do the “easier” way. Bah!
Posted by njstacie on March 17, 2009 at 3.32pm :: link