u/PurlingBadly

For me it's socks. I never, ever thought I'm gonna knit socks. Too fiddly, yarn and needles so tiny and thought I'm never have the courage to wear them (afraid to ruin them), so why bother.

But then I saw the herding cats socks by Stone Knits and I want them. I want them on my foot right now, I want 50 pairs of them, I wanna be buried in them they're so cute!

Now I'm learning to knit my first vanilla socks and it's going... not well, but going. After that I need to learn stranded colourwork and then I'm going to attempt the cat socks!

Hi everybody!

I found 2 oldish Pfaff machines. I don't know exactly how old are these, but one labeled as "made in west Germany" so it's at least 36 years old.

Can someone help me what is the difference between the two and which one a total beginner should buy?

Pfaff Hobbymatic 919

Pfaff Tipmatic 1045

Both of them is in a pretty good shape. I want to use them to make bed covers, shirts, bags, sewing backing on some knitted baby blankets and repairing clothes.

Thank you in advance!

Sorry if it's a silly question...

I casted on 118 stitches. Do I need to add +2 if I want to slip every first stitch to make a nicer edge? I'm using garter stitch for the edging. I slip purlwise every first stitch, but knit the last.

It shouldn't matter I suppose and I'm worrying about nothing, but just wandering what is a correct way in this instance.