1Q-2010 Men’s Knit-Along
So last Thursday night, a friend and I joined a men's Knit-Along (KAL) online. The project is the "Indoor Felted Boot" from Cat Bordhi's "Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles", sized-up to fit a guy's foot.
This project is cool for me in several ways… I'd like to learn to knit socks, and this is basically a fluffy sock that then gets felted, so minor mistakes get covered up. Not wanting to learn a technique that requires buying two circular needles, I learned the "magic-loop" technique that lets me do it on one circular. I get to participate in my first KAL, and I get to work on a project with another local guy who knits that I've been wanting to know better.
I picked a new yarn that had recently come in at Twist, and later discovered that it is self-striping and basically meant for felted slippers. It's a little pricey (I need $24 worth), but it is coming out pretty neat so far.
If you have a Ravelry account, this is what I'm knitting. And this is my project page.
The KAL is here. (on Google Groups). The organizer has made it private, and there was a deadline for joining, but I joined well after the deadline, and the project has just gotten started and is set to move pretty slowly, to be friendly to beginners.
We'd love to have more Wichita men participate, and you don't have to join the online group to particpate locally.