I finally got started on the March Sockamania sock; I am at row 25.
This pattern has been a challenge for me because the stitch where you switch between dpns is a purl, and it is difficult for me to make these tight and I am worried about laddering. I thought about moving the stitches around on the needles, but then I lost my place too easily, so went back to purling the first stitch. Hopefully with practice my dpn technique will improve.
This is my first project incorporating cables. I’m not sure they look like the sample in the pattern, but I can tell that I am making cables! I’m using the 5th dpn from my set, which can be a little dangerous . . . in an absent-minded moment, I started knitting onto the “cable” needle, and suddenly had 4 needles in my work and it took me a few minutes to figure out what I had done!
Hi! I have the same problems with my purl stitches while knitting socks. I found that if I wrap my purl stitches clockwise instead of counterclockwise, it tightens those purl stitches up and I don’t get ladders. Hope that helps and the socks look great! I need to work on cables!
Vickie
Thank you Vickie! I will definitely try that on the purl stitches.
Hello. I am hoping to reach tangle2007. I just was searching the internet looking for help with the knitting of the Einstein Coat. I too have been knitting this pattern from Sally Melville’s book “Book2: The Knit Stitch” and have run into a problem with the directions.
I found you, and it appears here on this blog that you too were making an Einstein Coat.
If I have reached you and you don’t mind helping me, could you please email me back and I’ll explain my question. It is about the decreases on the sleeve. Her directions imply that the decrease in in the center of the sleeve (which to me looks like along the top of the arm from shoulder to cuff). The pattern drawing looks like the decreases are on the bottom of the sleeve (from the armpit to cuff).
How did you do the decreases?