More on Peg, plus some socks.

Yesterday, Miss Dashwood got home from school just after I crocheted the edging and sewed on the button and emitted a scream of joy and danced very badly around the room. She gaped at me and my new sweater, and said, "Mom! I can't even see the sewing parts! It looks just like you bought it!" And while I was still beaming, because I had been afraid the shoulder seams were sloppy but she'd just reassured me that they weren't, she said, "Can I have a purple one?" So I have to remember to go to the Lion Brand website when I'm done here and see if Cotton Ease comes in purple.


I still haven't blocked it, because I've been too busy wearing it. But there's the button!

Today I went to my local yarn shop to buy a couple of size-2 circular needles, because this second Healthy Spine sock is driving me crazy and I don't know how I got the first one done on double-points with my sanity intact. (El Fuego has already announced that he doesn't think my sanity is intact, and he may have a point.) The yarn is fine, and I like how the pattern looks, but it doesn't lend itself to dpns because there's no really comfortable way to separate it onto 3 or 4 needles, so I was going to try the 2-circular-needle trick. But the lady at the yarn shop, who was already on my good side because she'd told me how cute Peg is, talked me into trying the Magic Loop. She had a Magic Loop sock-in-progress, and she showed me how it works, and - this can't be good for business - also pointed out that it means only buying one circular needle. So I bought the needle, promising to return next week for some Noro sock yarn (!!), but when I got home I couldn't quite get the already-started sock going in Magic Loop style, so:


For your consideration, the Loopy Peach method. One circular, two dpns. Well, three dpns. It's very scientific. And it's working much better than the all-dpn method!

Last but not least, here are my Felici socks:


KnitPicks Felici in the Clay colorway, knit on 2.75 dpns, just a plain old sock. Very comfy - I love this yarn.