Flexibility

Have you seen this survey yet? It’s a survey of sock knitting preferences. I took it this morning and realized that I don’t have many real, strong, sock knitting preferences – or knitting preferences in general. I do have an aversion to double pointed needles but I’m actually using them right now for the Pomatomus socks because Margene told me that the pattern really wouldn’t translate well to 2 circs. Unsurprisingly she’s right. I really expected using the dpns to be torturous but – here’s the surprise – I’m not minding them nearly as much as I thought I would. I turned the heel on the first sock last night and I find that it’s super-hard to put this project down. I still wouldn’t choose to use dpns unless ABSOLUTELY necessary but I can deal with them better than expected.

Anyway, back to the survey. I also realized that I’m very flexible on colors, needle size, knitting direction (toe up or cuff down). I guess I really am more of a process knitter. I’m not married to any one thing and I’ll do whatever is necessary for a project that interests me. If a pattern has a neat detail, looks unusual or challenging then I’ll do whatever is necessary to achieve success.

I really have no good knitting pictures today so here’s one of the blueberry bushes instead. See all of the flowers. How cool is that? I took it the other evening (the same time as the first shot of Felicia’s bag) and the flash was sadly unavoidable. This is only one of three bushes so I suspect that there will be plenty of blueberries for all of my big plans.(anyone tried to dye yarn with blueberries?) I also think that I need to get myself to H*me D*pot soon to get a net for berry protection.