Knitting ADD Strikes Again

Yesterday was a good knitting day.  I spent the early afternoon with my knitting buddies, Michele and Leigh, at Michele's house starting with lunch (I made lentil soup), and then an hour and a half knitting.  Leigh wanted to do some 2-at-a-time socks and needed help starting, so I showed her a video on how to cast on for those starting with the cuffs, which I hadn't done yet since my 2AAT socks have all been toe-up.  Michele was working on the Petra Hat that she had started a week or two ago, so I helped her switch from circulars to double pointed needles for the crown decreases.  She ended up finishing the hat before I left - it turned out so cute!

I had decided not to cast on the socks from the 2AAT KAL since I wasn't feeling the Melissa Morgan-Oakes 2-at-a-Time socks book that has the pattern they were knitting.  So I worked a few rounds of my Ribbed Ribbon socks while I was at Michele's.

When I got home, I grabbed the mail and there it was - Cookie A's latest book - Knit. Sock. Love.  And it just so happens there is a KAL knitting the patterns from that book.  It's their third month and they are knitting a sock called Thelonious.

Thelonious sock photo from Knit. Sock. Love.

So I did it.  I cast on another sock project.  Hello, Thelonious!  Coincidentally, they are worked from the cuffs down instead of two-up, and I had just learned how to cast them on to help Leigh.  It was a sign.  It was meant to be!

Now, Cookie's patterns in this book are a bit more... involved than her first book, and some of those are fairly complicated.  The Thelonious pattern calls for 10 stitch markers per sock, which means I needed 20 in order to work both socks at the same time.  I actually got it down to 16 total since I didn't need ones for the start and center of each round using magic loop.

Thelonious cast-on with Knit. Sock. Love. book

Close up of one Thelonious sock stitch markers

You're impressed, aren't you?  Don't be - I'm not that far in yet.  I'm just crossing my fingers that I can pull this pattern off and I don't have to frog them!