Chevron Socks

Busy week and not much time for knitting. I made some progress on the Anthropologie Capelet, but I've had to rip out a row here and there because the stitch markers occasionally slip over the YOs. It helps to keep track of increases--if I know how many stitches are supposed to be in a section, I can tell if the marker has moved. I also finished the pair of socks for my niece started way back in June. She picked out the yarn--green is her favorite color--and I gave them to her for her bday last weekend.

Pattern deets: Chevron pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks, knit on 2.5 mm DPNs, in Crystal Palace Panda Cotton in "Fern"

Confession: halfway through sock no. 2, I noticed that it was a little narrower than sock no. 1. And what I finally figured out was that I had accidentally used 2.5 mm DPNs on sock 1 and 2.25 mm DPNs on sock 2. Duh. (Oh, Knit Picks nickle-plated DPNs , I love you, but I wish you came with sizes tatooed on your shiny selves!) So I frogged sock #2, and started over. Along the way I was fairly crabby about the splitty-ness of the yarn. But as the socks began to take shape and I figured out how to catch/fix the splits, I grew fonder of the yarn, and I will definitely try it again for socks. Making the forethought heel for this project also added to my heel repertoire. Always a good thing.