The fall semester on university has just started, and this means that I found myself in need of a “campus knitting project”. I usually have different projects for each situation, so a campus project is something small, that can stay in my backpack until it is finished without taking up too much space, and so that I can bring it out anywhere. It also has to be something simple, so that I can knit during lunch and fika breaks and still be social, or so that I can look at the slides and knit to stay focused during a lecture.
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The Icelandic sweater is to clumsy to go to campus. There’s also wool all over my lap after working on it for a while so it’s probably an allergy hazard as well. Poor thing, but i’m sure it will turn out to be really pretty at least.
My new campus knitting is a pair of stripey pink socks that I started a really long time ago. I put them away because I realized I can not knit two things at a time with magic loop if there is also more than one color involved. Four balls of yarn will just get too tangled. This has led me to start using my double-pointed needles again for some colorwork projects.
So, I guess we can summarize that my favorite thing about magic loop is to be able to knit two things at a time. The good thing about that is that it’s easier to know that the two things will be exactly the same without me having to write down notes for the next one, especially when you improvise a bit along the way as I often do. But when I knit one thing at a time, I really can’t say if I prefer magic loop or double pointed needles. One difference is that I use wooden double pointed needles because metal is a bit too slippery in that case, and also makes a bit of a clinking sound when all the five needles swoosh around. I also prefer to use magic loop for my before mentioned campus projects because the stitches stay on the needles more safely.
My next campus knitting project is actually decided already and it will be a simple everyday kind of hat for autumn, namely the Sockhead slouch hat, using the yarn Sauberball crazy in the color herbstwind. Herbstwind is autumn wind in german so it suited well for an autumn project.
That is all I have for today!
Stay strong, stay in school, keep knitting! // Nelly