The thing about knitting Hitchhiker with sock yarn on sock needles [aka tiny stitches on tiny needles] is that other seemingly difficult projects become easy peasy in comparison.
Take Pomme de Pin (Ravelry link).
A week ago, it looked like this:
Knit in one piece from the bottom up [yes, that means fronts and back together which translates to very long rows] with sport weight yarn [finer than the worsted weight yarn I normally use for sweaters meaning more stitches per inch] and an allover lace pattern [that centered double decrease alone takes longer than the working the other 7 sts in each pattern repeat combined], it was a slog. Add to that the fact that I’d made a mistake and had to rip back about eight rows to correct it, slog was an understatement. I started it in January, and it was going nowhere fast.
But after Hitchhiker, I’m telling you, sport yarn looks really heavy to me. And 195 sts per row? The sts are so big the yarn is literally flying off the ball. This project has become a breeze.
See? Almost up to the armholes.
Supero* indeed.
One possible hitch: After a looking for the perfect yarn to knit Color Affection (Ravelry link) for over a year – needed to be three colors that played well together in three different intensities which would show contrast when viewed in black and white – I have found [and ordered] the perfect yarn: Quince & Co. Finch in Iceland, Kumlien’s Gull, and Kittywake. On my monitor, it looks like three shades of a blue-based heather, but even if it turns out to be pure grey, I’m happy. I have been drooling over these colors since they debuted, and I am elated to have come up with the perfect project for them. The yarn has been shipped, and I’m telling you, when it arrives, I am casting on.
*Supero – Latin, with many meanings: to be above, have the upper hand, surpass, conquer, overcome