The other night I sat down to watch a movie, one that was going to require that I pay attention to it and not my knitting, and realized all my WIP’s had a degree of lacework. I knew I’d just end up messing up whatever I tried to knit, so I watched, and enjoyed the movie… but wished the whole time my hands were busy with the needles.
The very next day I cast on these… mindless knitting. Plain old socks. 64 stitches, toe up, stockinette, short row heel. I must always remember to keep a mindless project on the needles!
(BTW – the yarn is Trekking Pro Natura, color 1602. The nail polish is OPI, Cha-Ching Cherry.)
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The Pleasures of God, John Piper
Knit Together 
I agree – a mindless knitting project is a necessity! I was going to knit on my lace project last night while we watched Fantastic 4 – that quickly got put back in the basket!
Yep, you’ve got to have some simple stuff to knit on while watching TV or whatever. I tried to work on something while talking on the phone today and had to frog every single row. I like the sock and the nail polish!
Yes! A simple project is a must… always!
Yup, I always like to have a mindless sock on the needles too. 🙂
Absolutely true. I have a stash of 50 cents a skein yarn that I bought on clearance from WalMart that I can use now to knit hats and scarves for charity whenever my hands are idle but my brain is busy.
Love those OPI names, very pretty sock, I started one today while getting my hair cut and colored for the same reason- needed something small and mindless.
I’m in desperate need of one of those mindless knits too! I’m also up to my eyeballs in lace knitting items.
Cha Ching – I’ll remember that for a good red. Boring is really good with that yarn! It looks like a Noro. Happy Summer!
hi! You socls look great! i am just learning to knit toe up; i learned the short row toe, but i don’t like it! i hide teh wraps adn there are holes, i dont’ hide teh wraps and there are holes! it looked sooooo sloppy and i ripped it ALLL out!!
could you please please email me if you have any suggestions on how you make your short rows look so nice, ??? i am in ravelry- my user is mrsmiz
oh, i would love to hear from you! and i love those mindless knits when all i want to do is knit and nto think,
ttyl!
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