Cast on for Mona - 2AAT Magic Loop
As with all of Cookie A's socks, Mona is knit from the cuff down. Because it looks like the pattern chart is worked an even number of times, that means it won't cross needles and can be worked 2AAT fairly easily. At least until the heel, when I have to do some fiddling.
The picture shows the first 1/2 inch or so of the cuff ribbing. Since then I've finished the inch of ribbing and also did about 1.5 inches of the pattern - just over halfway through the chart. The instructions say to knit until it measures 5" (including the ribbing), ending on row 12 of the chart (I believe there are 24 rows). So I'm barely started, but hoping to make some good progress this week. I don't have any Usborne home shows scheduled, but I do have a book fair to close out after I get the school's list of free books, but that should still leave a lot of time for knitting.
Amazingly enough, I haven't yet cast on my socks for the "Socks from the Toe Up" KAL - the Bavarian Cable socks. I have the yarn and needles on deck and ready to go. I'm usually so anxious to start a new project that it's hard for me to not cast on another pair of socks. However, I'm finding that so far this month (yeah, a whole two days of April) that I'm not feeling the urge yet. So I'm going to work on Mona until that must-cast-on-something-new-now feeling comes over me, then I'll be all set to go! Where if I make myself cast on the second pair now, when that urge comes it would mean a third pair would have to be started. And that would just be crrrrazy.
Yeah, I'm outsmarting my own brain. Not sure if that's something to be proud of....
But purple is my favorite color!
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