Mini knitting

The New York Times site is being wiggy right now, but through it yesterday I found out about an art exhibit featuring knitting and lace. Here are some tiny gloves. I knit some mini Jaywalkers last night, not that you can tell what the pattern is.The new Blogger won't resize my photos to fit the browser window anymore. I wrote to the help people and have received nothing.

Update: OK, if you click on an image and it's huge and you want to fit it all on one screen, right click the huge image and select "view image." This takes you from a huge image hosted at blogger to an image that will resize to fit the window, hosted at google. No idea what you should do on a Mac. And bloggers having this problem should remove the "-h" from "s1600-h" in the html code per these instructions. Fix this please, Blogger!

Knitting, no kneading

I have completed one Fleece Artist sock but feel it's a little small. I can't decide if I want to just fix the toe or redo the whole thing. I kind of had a hard time finding the right needle size/cast-on number combo for this yarn. I did 60 stitches on a size 1. I also think I made it too long . It's a bit tight at the top (which is picot, can you tell?).I made the same bread everyone else in America is making (Bittman's no-knead bread). It was not without its troubles (sticking and requiring a baking vessel I do not have a perfect match for), but it's good, and I'm sure I'll make it again.

The crust is crunchy, which is one of its selling points, but my mouth can't handle a lot of that. Plus it's messy to cut (see crumbs above).

Picot

I've seen lots of pretty socks out there that have picot cuffs so I wanted to give it a try. I'm not ready to cast on a new pair of socks so I just did a little swatch cuff. I followed the directions here except I did not use a crochet chain of waste yarn. I just used the "open cast-on" from Vogue Knitting. It was a lot more work than a normal ribbed cuff, but it's pretty. The drawbacks of the picot cuff are that it's thicker (there are two layers of yarn for a few rows), inelastic, and can flare out from the leg a bit. All of these mean that the socks could be slouchy.