snugger

There are things that frighten us that really are scary. Bungy jumping off a bridge for example. Finding a large huntsman spider lurking behind your towel. That sort of thing.

But then you have things that just have an aura of scariness about them for some odd unknown purpose. To ward off the truly uninterested? Who knows.

Anyway, to any of the elect, knitting without needing to sew it all up afterwards, aka knitting in the round, is not one of those things. But to a mere spring chicken (knittingly speaking) such as moi, it is a kind of unattainable beacon. (Though not, you understand such as one might find at the Castle Anthrax. A real goal). And if knitting a large round thing on one circular needle seems scary, then knitting a small round thing on 4 double pointed needles is downright ridiculously scream-inducing. All those ends for your stitches to fall off! And let’s not mention the fact that you’ll feel like your own knitting is coming at you with a pointed stick. Obviously someone else felt the same way, but really wanted to knit small round things. Like socks say, or wrist warmers. So they very kindly discovered that you could knit small round things on 2 circular needles instead. I don’t know who they were, but I’m very, very grateful to them…

Hopefully that will end up looking the one at the knitty link above. Only a sort of greeny-grey instead of pinky-purply obviously. And once again, I have the wonderful people (person?) at knittinghelp.com to thank. I think they need a medal.

Oh, and as with any of this knitting stuff, I will eventually face my fear of the double points. I’m just not ready for it.

Yet.