Complicated patterns are fun. No doubt about that. I love working on an item and seeing something beautiful and timeless (i.e. time consuming ) unfold. For a while there all I wanted to knit was cables, lace, and bumpy textures. After two lacy sweaters and a pair of complicated socks, though, I’ve once again come to enjoy what I call “mindless knitting”: projects that require little thought.
The socks I’m working on right now are just that. I was able to knit about one third of them while watching The Fellowship of the Ring. I hardly had to look at my hands at all, I didn’t have to squint over a pattern chart, and I didn’t discover any mistakes when the movie finished! It was glorious. Easy projects are rewarding in their own special way.
Pattern: Sock pattern from The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns, plus Priscilla’s Dream Socks pattern for the short-row heel and toe
Yarn: Louet Gems – fingering weight – Baby Neptune
The socks I’m working on right now are just that. I was able to knit about one third of them while watching The Fellowship of the Ring. I hardly had to look at my hands at all, I didn’t have to squint over a pattern chart, and I didn’t discover any mistakes when the movie finished! It was glorious. Easy projects are rewarding in their own special way.
Pattern: Sock pattern from The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns, plus Priscilla’s Dream Socks pattern for the short-row heel and toe
Yarn: Louet Gems – fingering weight – Baby Neptune
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