Waiting to be blocked

Knitting Big

I adopted a couple of hanks of a new yarn called Big from an Italian spinnery, Bracco. It's an alpaca-wool-plastic blend in a really HUGE version. A 100 grams hank is only 40 meters long! Despite being 50% plastic it has a really nice feel, it's soft and very natural feeling, it even smells lightly of "animal", a slight odor that goes away with a light wash. Even the structure is interesting, since it looks like a single ply but instead it's made of 6 very lightly spun plies.
I knitted it into an easy short rowed cowl and a 15 mm (US 19) needle at 6 sts to 10 cm (4"); it's soft and plushy, like a cushion abd it takes a really short time to knit it up. "Fun" one would think...

Big, the cowl!

Nope. It took me just this one knit to make understand i full that I do not like in the least knitting with such huge needles and such low tension. It tires me out and makes my wrists hurt. Sorry, guys! The yarn is a treat despite the hight acrylic content, but knitting it for me is a bit of a threat.

A sock fever

Seems I can't stop knitting socks. The plain sticknette pair is done and I decided to exhume an old pair that I never got to finish. The Black Death socks (so called because kniting socks in black wasn't probabily the rightest idea) were started in december 2009, but after finishing the first sock I just dropped them and left no note (!!) about how I made heel ant toe. I just know that I didnì't use my standard methods, so I guess reproducing the first will not be just that easy.

Hey, I've got two socks!

Finished my Kitty Paw Socks. Happy with them. Pity that one has ribbing that tends to slouch, probably the (old and partially recycled) yarn is a bit damaged. Well, who cares?! I still needed new socks. By the way, I have two partial pairs that I badly need to resuscitate. wish me good luck with the instructions I sketched on a paper...