2 posts tagged “stash”
I've been checking out ball winders for some time now, and while they aren't insanely expensive (not all of them anyway) I haven't been able to settle on a model. I don't remember exactly where, but I read somewhere about a nostepinne (nostepinde) and that it was used for ball winding. This is possibly common knowledge to seasoned knitters, but I'm self-taught & still relatively wet behind the ears -- what's a nostepinne?! Thus I started snooping around online to find out what this thing was. It's basically a little wooden baton that you wrap yarn around -- nothing more, nothing less.
Check it out...
Getting off to a questionable start here, though I am no stranger to the once-a-month posting habit. On the bright side, I can never be accused of delivering TMI, right? Maybe, sometimes. Moving on.
Before getting back on the sleeves, I started my first sock ever. It's not perfect, far from it, though very exciting being that over the past year every sock attempt was a great big disaster. Friends, toe up is the way to go! Of course now I'm sort of stalled at the cuff because the 1x1 ribbing is so tedious. Quitter that I am, I might take it apart and start over so that my wrapped stitches will be perfection. I had hoped I might knit some socks for my sister as a Christmas gift, but I would want them to last. And wouldn't it be a shame to have one iffy sock and one very nice sock when they should be a bonafide pair? Yeah, let's frog that sock.