The knitting community is such a wonderful thing. I barely got my comments about using the DPNs onto the blog when I was getting suggestions… (and yes Cindy, they’re long, but I guess I haven’t searched the right shops for shorter ones)…
I guess that since I’ve used DPNs for umpteen other things that I thought learning on two circs would be tedious, or difficult. I’m not the HUGEST fan of circular needles, but mostly because I seem to cast on tightly and have trouble knitting my first row… I was mildly worried about knitting with skinny yarn on tiny circulars and my tension… I was worried for NOTHING.
Huge thanks to Devon and her post about socks (two at a time) for pointing me to these two links from Cat Bordhi about socks on circs. First off.. Cat Bordhi does an excellent job demonstrating the process… and second.. I laughed so hard listening to her instructions.. she’s so NOT what I was expecting.. she had me cracking up! Even my middle guy had to watch and giggle along with me… I guess hearing his mom laugh got his attention…
There were a number of other Cat Bordhi videos there and I watched about the magic cast on, and think that I’ll soon try my first toe up socks… but I don’t want to rush into anything just yet…
My Monkey’s are coming along nicely. I got through 4 rounds of the lace repeats last night… I ended up going with the tradtional (male) Monkeys because I was just afraid to try knitting ALL the purls.. I wasn’t absolutely certain that knitting all the purls in the lace section was correct.. even though all my research kept pointing to YES.. I wasn’t thrilled with the possibility of ripping it all out if I was wrong.. I don’t have any issues with purling anyway… so I just went with the traditional Monkeys… (Jess.. please just write and tell me… YES you doof… it’s Knit all those Purls 
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No flash, not quite the right color
The color is closer to this pic with the flash, but then you can’t see the Monkey details well…
For The Big Guys birthday cake we had a cookies and cream cake from
Sooooo yummmmmy!
Want one for yourself? Here’s where we got the recipe…
