So last week while in my home town I traveled to a LYS, New York Knits. This is a pretty good shop. Although, I do have to acknowledge how lucky we are in Boston. The city and its metro area are home to some of the finest stores I’ve been in: great selection, good people, and decent prices. New York Knits was pretty good. Having said that, I found that some of their yarns were well over retail.

I’m in the store wandering around picking up goodies and I’m BORED. What?! What has happened to our Bookish Girl?! Is she so jaded by knitting that she’s lost her zest? Nah, I just have a pretty bad case of “short attention span syndrome.” This leads me to the sale bin where I find some GGH Bali in Red, it was $2.50 a ball. I see Red. I see Red and think - RED SOX!

While the Boys of Red underwent the Fab Five Treatment (which, by the way, was pretty lame) I was to undergo some Socks of Red treatment. DPNS are already poking me in the ass. Alternative - 2 circs? Nah, too easy. What other way could their be?

Magic Loop! Dude me and my Denises are so there.

Can I just say that knitting socks on size 5’s with worsted weightish yarn is way cool. I am fast as lightening. Faster than a southern boy makin’ it with his sweetheart.

Eh-hem.

The booklet was relatively cheap, considering my LYS is offering a class for quite a bit more. The method itself is easy - peesey. I’m not one that usually learns well from a book (is that ironic?). This I had no problems with.

Note to self: do not uses Denises for this method in the future.

While I love them, Denises are a pain for the Magic Loop. You should use at least a 32″ circ for premium manipulation. With the Denise this requires a join of two cords (what the heck are they called again?!), which is a bit cumbersome when pushing the knitted stitches from end to end.

Otherwise. I’m seeing Red. Sox.