After my recent whine about my difficulties getting a new knitting project on the go, it seemed only polite to let you know what I'd actually ended up working on. I was too busy trying not to name names when it came to the patterns that had frustrated me that I stayed tight lipped about what had finally broken me out of my funk!
After all that melodrama I finally ended up knitting
Effervesce by Purrlescent. These socks have exactly the look I was going for with tiny little travelling cables. They look really intricate and complicated but really they are dead simple and are knitting up really fast. I cast on on 22nd January and I've just turned the heel down on the second sock less than 3 weeks later. While I'm aware that's not super fast, I have socks on the needles which I cast on in December 2012.......
These socks never have you crossing more than one stitch over the next so by cabling without a cable needle I'm finding that I'm not being slowed down too much. The only issue I've had is that I decided to use magic loop (I'm ordinarily a DPN type of girl) and I've been through 3 sets of needles before I found some where the bump in the join wasn't driving me bonkers.
I'm hoping to have these done in a week or so and then the plan is to knit Lissy a sweater. I'm kind of feeling sock fever kicking back in though so she'll have to behave herself if she doesn't want to go back in the queue!
