Fri 22 Jan 2010
Charts? Check.
Yarn? Check.
Needles? Umm…??
I can’t believe that these are words that I can still say, but I don’t have the right needles for the lace I cast on the other day. It has been a long, long time since I’ve needed a needle and not had it.A glance at my needle collection would be enough to convince you that I have everything anyone could ever need, and multiple copies at that. And yet, I appear to have missed filling in the smaller sizes in my Addi lace collection. Huh.
The cast on I showed you was on size 3 Addis, but the gauge was way too loose. I wanted to go down to a 1 or a 2. I have a 2.25 mm (I think….it’s the one that has no equivalent US size), but that’s coming out a little too tight.
I went to knit night at my LYS on Wednesday, and bought size 1 and 2 in their pointiest needles (ChiaoGoos), as they don’t carry Addis. I’ve never tried Chiaogoo needles before. They looked pretty pointy, but after the first few rows of lace, I discovered that they’re not really pointy enough for things like k3tog. (Or at least not with this yarn and my tension.)
Guess I’ll be knitting on something else for a while…maybe a sock that is much needed to complete a pair. Or maybe a neglected sweater. Too bad, though…I was hoping to make some headway on the lace this weekend. Good thing there are plenty of distractions around!
I hate it when that happens! I just discovered that I can’t find any of my size one circulars — I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out where they could be. I’ve tossed the stash and gone through every project back in my collection — nowhere. So I’ll be getting needles today, too…
I totally understand this – although my problem is usually that I seem to have the needles I need in use. (For some reason, everything I knit in fingering or laceweight yarns seems to need a US3.) I did go on a bit of an Addi binge a couple months ago when I needed a size I didn’t have – I discovered all these other ‘in-between’ sizes I didn’t have and, well, I wouldn’t want to have to make another trip…it turned out well though – the ‘in-between’ size I hadn’t planned on buying gave me perfect gauge.
Um, do you have a good emery board? File those points down – I do it all the time!