However, I have cast on for a new sweater based on Beth Silverstein’s “Francis Revisited”. The yarn is a lovely black worsted weight pure Alpaca I picked up at Wolland years ago. As the pattern specifies that the yarn should be knit pretty loosely I swatched with 5mm, 5.5mm and 6mm needles and the 5.5mm gave the best result.
Unfortunately the only 5.5mm needles around in this household are 80cm circulars and the sweater is knit top-down, so I am reduced to starting it on two circs. Have I mentioned how much I loathe this technique? I thought so. I already managed to mess up once, when on round 4 I realised that I had twisted the cast on before joining. Or maybe I had managed to twist it during the first round, when yarn and needles were putting up a desperate fight. This has honestly never happened to me on dpns. The second attempt seems to be working now, but I’ll be glad when there are enough stitches on the needles to continue on a single circular.
Yes, I am whining. Why do you ask?
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