Corn porn?

Finally, something about which to blog (we’re using the queen’s English today). I’ve really been in kind of a knit/blog/overall funk. Plus I am busily chipping away at my new, self-imposed amount of work.  At least it’s all yarn related!
The girls over at KH have been talking about my corn. No, not my feet, silly. My a-Maizing yarn made of 100% corn from South West Trading company. I finally decided I couldn’t possibly keep my hands off it any longer. Why I thought it might make a good sock is beyond me. Ok, mainly that fact that it is soft AND machine washable/dry made me think “socks!” It’s not very stretchy though I’m thinking not so good for socks. Good for lots of other stuff though; especially baby stuff with this particular color, Aidan. It would also make really good BABY socks or baby booties, seeing as how babies really don’t care quite as much about hand knit sock fit as we adults.

Another interesting thing about this little adventure was using the stretchy circulars again. I first tried these by knitting on to them from a sock that was already in process. This time though, I was starting fresh. Figure 8 cast on, toe up socks…my favorite method. What surprised me about the circulars was that I could cast on! I just used the stretchies as you would using the magic loop method (pull right needle to knit while right needle stitches stay on the circ). It wasn’t the easiest thing in the world with this yarn (no stretch), but I think it would work fine with wool. How cool would that be if the whole sock start to finish could be on this little circular?!? I’ll have to experiment more with “real” sock yarn.

Hope it’s sooner than two weeks before I see y’all again. How did I ever keep up with posting a few times a week?