Well, almost!!!
I finished this late last night so haven't sewn up the ends OR tried it on for size so may well have to add a few more rows which means, of course, undoing what I've done back to the toe decreasing!!! That's never a problem in my mind. Undoing things means to me - going back and improving!!!
I think the psychology of this type of yarn suits me and saves me from the SSS as I'm dying to see whether my careful measuring out of the yarn before starting really works!!! I'll show you as soon as I've got something to show!!!
Excuse the wonky photo but I was being really lazy and just grabbed a piece of cloth to put on the table!! I really 'do' wonky very well in all aspects of my life!
Don't worry. I like wonky. And fiddly. Is that a variegated yarn, or do you keep switching out? Switching would be so much work but the color bands look so even!
ReplyDeleteA very nice sock! I recently chanced upon new sock knitting needles called Crasy needles. Have you seen those ? You get 3 in the packet, very tiny circulars, it is supposed to be much faster to knit with these. I have bought one set to try, we shall see if they live up to the hype.
ReplyDeleteLooks great. At least knitting is easy to undo, have to take a much deeper breath before un-tatting, but I hope it fits so there's no undoing.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of them til you mentioned them, Maureen. Just been reading about them. Not sure I'll bother to try this as I'm very happy with my carbon straight dpi's. Thanks for the heads up - I'm always interested in anything new!
ReplyDeleteYour sock looks great!! I love the autumn colors!! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a really attractive blend of colors and it doesn't look like an 'obvious' self-striping yarn in that the dark colors seem more 'solid' (in the photo) and 'break up' the stripe effect in an attractive way. I've often wondered what yarn company decided to try creating the self-striping yarn, which probably involved tricky calculations. It was such a big improvement over the 'varigated' yarns which often looked better on the ball than knitted up!
ReplyDeleteWhen I knit my first pair I also had to figure out how to 'start' in the same place to make sure the stripes were exact. The worry was that the yarn would have a knot in it and might have been cut and tied, ruining the matching effect. Fortunately everything went smoothly. However, in today's world some try not to make things match - you know - the 'hip' crowd that doesn't want to 'conform'!
My other problem was I couldn't believe I was paying $14 for a pair of socks! I couldn't afford to 'waste' the yarn! (Mine were knee-high, so they took two balls of yarn.)
I've run into that very problem, Kathy. The second one isn't working out right but I'm not going to undo it!!! Upwards and onwards. Nobody will see them anyway so why would I worry?
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly right - no one will see them, and I really didn't get too anxious about it. However, I was impressed that both balls of yarn did have the exact formula for the yarn changes! I'm not sure they could control the 'dye lots', however. Some balls seemed brighter in hue than others. Unfortunately, the company discontinued the yarn after only a few years, which surprised everyone because it was so popular.
ReplyDeleteLate in replying Tim, sorry. The ball is a variegated one and it just works like it looks. No changes of balls or messing about - it just 'happens'!!!!
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