socks on two circs: expensive (i.e., the needles are), if any less clumsy than a DPN octopus i haven’t really appreciated it, and i haven’t really had ladders problems much so i didn’t realize any benefit there either, but faster. by a lot. even if i am horribly slow with 2×2 ribbing. so: tenatively, thumbs up. i just wish i had the right sizes of needles to work with this self-striping sock yarn i got at the going-out-of-business LYS a couple of weeks ago; my #3s are too large or my gauge to loose or whatever to show off the stripes right, so it looked like this semi-holey weird tweedy heather thing with occasional intermittant stripes. i think if i had a pair of #2 circs i’d give it another shot. as it is, i started over with a slightly heavier weight (and slightly fuzzier) yarn and am having pretty decent luck with it. hooray for socks!

also, am using inox needles for this (as opposed to boye — of which i have several, in larger sizes, but they do not have the lovely silky cables, they have the annoying “we are stuck in this shape forever; deal with it!” cables — or addi turbos — of which i have none, because, dude, you want me to pay what for a knitting needle??), and they’re very nice. much, much, much better on the easily-angered niquiwrists than those awful fighting-back needles. one end has a slightly rough join but really, compared to my other circs? they’re the cat’s pyjamas. i look forward to knitting in public at the Ohio LinuxFest in two weeks. mostly because i think it’ll be entertaining to be a unix chick knitting in a ginormous crowd of nerds. but i shall also have sock progress, so hey.