Firestarter part 4, frogging and frogs

Yes.. this is attempt 4. I had some trouble reading and understanding those traveling stitches on the chart. So I frogged it and did yet again a magical cast on (I'm getting good at that :D) and see! It's going very wel now.

Thanks to the excellent help from my good friend and Firestarter expert - thank you very much Jet - who 'translated' the chart for me and now I understand it completely. :D

But I have to stop knitting for a while. I'm going to work this afternoon and evening and tomorrow and monday I'll be at the zoo for the special event held there. It's called Coole Kikkers, which means Cool Frogs and has to do all about frogs. No not frogging, frogs *lol* The zoos in the whole world have declared 2008 the year of the frog. You can read more about it here.

So, have a great weekend, I'm off for now!

Look! No holes in my toe.

Firestarter continued

The patters for the Firestarter tells me to do a provisional cast on, and make short rows with the wrap & turn method. The cast on went pretty wel, but the first wrap & turn did not go very well. I had holes in my toe:

I sent this toe toe the frog pond, did another cast on and started over, wrapping and turning and all went well. So I thought...
Until this happened:

BUT.. I really, really, really want those socks, so I went looking for another method of casting on toe up socks and I found a 'magic cast on' in Knitty. And look:

So far so good ;-) I've never done a sock on 2 circs, so I'm very curious if I can do this without any holes ;-))

If it works, I'm going to be so proud of myself :D

Firestarter started!

My first provisional cast-on without help. This is the second time I do this, my first time I had help (read: it was done by, while I was watching) from Robert, one of my SnB-knitsibs ;-)

UPDATE:

This is going to the frogpond... I don't like holes in my sock. Lets try again ok? ;-)

Knitting plans

I want to knit these:

It's the firestarter from Yarnissima

With this yarn:

Rhabarber from Wollmeisse.

I really, really, really want to cast on.. but I still have 2 pairs of socks OTN and my super-secret-project for the Hallowe'en-party on october 31st at Mulligans. And I do need to knit a swatch for this: