Category: socks

  • down to the wire

    Well, the Big Paper is due on Wednesday, so as soon as that’s in I’m sure there’s going to be a whole lotta new stuff going on around here! Although, I still have to study for finals…shhhhhh.

    Anyway, I did finally manage to finish a Whitby sock. Shown sans grafting, which of course I did just after I took the picture.

    I managed to screw up one of the repeats in the foot (and anyone who has knit these knows that’s nearly impossible!) but I didn’t notice till after it was done. Oh well, it’s staying now. I’ll replicate it on the second sock.

    And a new skein. Blue face leicester.

    This is much heavier than my usual for some reason – it’s 100g and only 130 yards. I usually get over 200 at least. It’s not much thicker than my usual worsted weights (although it is, by a bit) but I think the real difference is that I didn’t really predraft. So there’s not as much air in there, thus it’s denser. But I kind of like it, it’s heavy and seems like it’d be hard-wearing. Tightly plied, since the singles were pretty tightly spun.

    Aaaaand…it’s striping! Quite long repeats, 2 of them, with some blending areas between. There are only 6 colour changes (3 colours x 2 repeats) so it’d be more like a gentle fade.

    Apologies for the blurry photos; I’m feeling a bit blurry myself at the moment. Time for bed!

  • ah, the smell of new projects

    It’s a balmy 10 degrees Celsius today, and it just feels like one of those lovely productive spring days! I washed a bunch of yarns, and spun up just a bit of new stuff:

    The bottom one is 114 yards of 2ply merino, one strand of red-and-blue single and one strand of solid blue plied together. The top one was made from the leftover red and blue single – it’s 60 yards, navajo plied. More for practice than anything, although it is lofty and squishy!

    I started a new project the other day, and I’m just in love with it.

    It’s the “Cable/Rib Cardigan” from last year’s holiday vogue, knit out of Shelridge Farm W4. This just might be my new favourite yarn – soft, even, multiple plies, great yardage, super colour. Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of it (you can bet I’ll be buying a bunch at this year’s downtown knit collective’s knitter’s frolic in April) so I’m heavily modifying the pattern. The sleeve and back will be done in stockinette stitch. I’m up to almost 10″ of one of the fronts.

    I finished the first Trekking sock. I’m not sure why it took me so long, but here it is – this is a horrible photo for the colour; much better one here.

    Hmmmmm. Maybe I should go finish up that vneck sweater and cross it off the list.

  • perhaps

    So when I found myself this week without a tote-around (read: lecture) project, I quickly cast on for a plain stockinette sock.

    I think it’s coooooool. And knits up fast, even on 2 mm, because I just want to keep seeing the colours change!

    I spun up a skein of 100% soy silk, about 95 yards of 2-ply.

    It was rather odd to work with; the fibre falls apart really easily and sends up a lot of fluff. Damn sticky, too. It also seems to become overspun very quickly, when it actually isn’t. I found the easiest way to work with it was to use short lengths, and split the roving into pencil-width strips.

    Not much else going on today – I’m making swatches and writing scarf patterns for a beginner lace class I’m teaching on Sunday morning. And working on my Charlotte.

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