The Daily Purl

Check out this cool yarn sign by DH. It’s foam!

side view

Here’s the progress on the cashmere cable hat, patt from Rebecca 30.
I’m using the specified ggh cashmere yarn in color no. 5.

Rebecca 30 patt no. 17.
Same pattern as the soy hat but this time in cashmere by ggh. Yum!

Ignore frustrations in previous post. I can’t believe how much I enjoy knitting with dpns! Once I got a few rows finished, I started to get a rhythm down, knitting quickly. However, my technique needs some work (that’s a cable you see in the picture on the right!).

Another weekend afternoon at a LYS, learning to knit a cable hat from a Rebecca pattern. This is the first time I�’ve used double pointed needles and I have to say it�’s not so easy. Can I do the same pattern using circulars?
I was sitting at the table with other knitters trying to balance the four dpns, occasionally grabbing a jellybean or two from the bowl in the center of the table, when four stitches fell off the end of one of the needles. Who invented double pointed needles and why? I pushed forward and continued to knit ribs and cables in the charcoal colored soy yarn. A fellow knitter said that if it didn�’t work out I could eat it. Not so crazy an idea because a carton of silk soymilk is a staple in my refrigerator.

WIP – cable scarf in Aurora 8.

Here is the cable scarf from Rebecca.
The navy blue is dark and a bit hard on the eyes to knit, so I may switch back to a lighter color after a couple of rows. Cables are classic.