Un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière...

I've been knitting all night. And am barely one half round further than where I was this morning on my socks. The second sock's heel looked so much better than the first one that I had to redo the first one. And then I proceeded to make a huge mess I couldn't fix without unravelling the exact same rows I had previously unravelled. But at least NOW both heels are turned.

And I've just decided that tomorrow (well, acutaly today, only later) is finishing-petticoat-#1-day. J'ai dit.

Gathers, ruffles, gathers...

No finished petticoat tonight, I was overly ambitious with my goal-setting yesterday. At least the monster-ruffle of doom is attached to the petticoat bottom. Now "all" I need to do is :
- re-gather the top and put it on some sort of waistband to check fit and length
- make some sort of bodice to turn this into a kind of bodiced petticoat. No way am I going to have that much weight hanging off my sole waist without a corset.

*drops dead on the floor*

And I just won 15 bamboo circs and 15 pairs of straight bamboo knitting needles on eBay. I'm waiting for the bamboo DPNs auction to end. Then my set of knitting needles will be (almost) complete (let's face it, I wouldn't mind having PAIRS of the circs, at least the smaller ones, for socks). I'm starting to think part of the reason I never went far with the knitting before was 1) the lack of a Ravelry and 2) the slippery metal needles. I'm dreading going back to cables with the Chaos Socks just because my DPN always tries to slip away from the stitches. I *heart* bamboo.