About a year ago, I bought a small book titled “Sokken brei je zo“. This translates as “This is how you knit socks”. I bought some dpns, got out some left-over wool and started knitting. Unfortunately, I had only been able to find dpns of 30 centimetres (12 inches), which turned sock knitting into some kind of struggle. Above that, I couldn’t make sense of the heel either, and I gave up.
This year, I thought I’d give it another go. I was encouraged after I had been able to do the mittens on dpns of 20 centimetres (8 inches). But I only have dpns size 4,5mm (US 7) and 5mm (US 8), and I needed size 3mm (US 2,5). Since I had just received the Denise kit and I had read so many positive things about the magic loop, I thought I’d give this a go. I settled for the smallest size 3,75mm (US 5) and got going. Up till now, it went quite well. It’s much easier to carry around than dpns, that’s for sure. However, I do think it’s quite a fuss to pull the cord through every time.
I’m going to finish this pair of socks on magic loop, and I’m even planning to do a tutorial on it here soon, using the second sock as an example. But after that, I’ll most likely go back to dpns when knitting socks. After all, I did just place an order on hobbydoos.nl for the smaller sized ones…