Self-patterning socks #whatever for DH
Recipient: DH
Designer: Debbi Young
Pattern: Sock It to Me Plain Toe-Up Socks for the Family
Source: elann.com
Completed: January 4, 2008
Colours: Self-patterning colourway with navy, white, black, etc.
Yarn: On Your Toes 75% superwash wool/25% nylon, sock weight
Ungiven status: For our anniversary
Pictures:
- 2008-Jan-11
- I finished these! It took a little finagling with the yarn to make everything stripe exactly like the first sock, but they turned out great. I really, really like the way this yarn striped.
They are now hiding from DH in one of the baskets beside the living room futon. (I write that not for your own edification, but for mine. I can easily see myself tearing the house apart on the eve of our anniversary next month trying to find where the hell I put them, unless I write it down here.)
- 2008-Jan-1
- As promised, I ripped back everything I'd done on the first sock (almost the whole foot before the heel turn) and started again with four metal needles. The first sock is now done, and I'm working on the heel of the second.
I really, really like the striping on this one. It takes a really long time to come around to the beginning again. The only weird thing is that the first repeat on the first sock is the reverse of all the other repeats for (as far as I can tell) the rest of the ball. So I'm going to have to do something clever after I turn the heel of the second sock to make it stripe in the right direction up the leg. But that shouldn't be too hard. I'll have loads of yarn left over, too.
- 2007-Dec-1
- Once I realised I could use DH's electronic caliper tool to measure knitting needle diameters, I went on the hunt for a DPN in my collection which would match the one I was using for these socks, which I broke.
Sadly, no dice. The needles I was using all measure about 2.53mm, and the closest thing I have measures 2.61mm (2.59mm if I really squeeze the caliper). If I were knitting plain socks, I would just use the 2.61mm as a replacement and keep going on the sock. However, since this is self-patterning, the small difference in needle width is probably going to result in fraternal socks.
Blast.
So, I'm going to rip all of sock #1 out and restart with needles which are all the same size.
(It's not that bad. I really like the colourway and don't think I'll mind working it all over again.)
- 2007-Nov-23
- I think someone's trying to tell me something. And that something is, "STOP WORKING ON THESE SOCKS ALREADY AND GET BACK TO YOUR PRIORITY KNITTING!!!"
First, as I mentioned in my last entry, I lost the fourth needle, so work stalled. But then I found it while taking photos for the blog, so work proceeded. Then I broke the tip off of one of the needles. Did work stall again? Hell, no. Turns out I can still use a DPN for socks if there's only one tip. Lifted increases are harder when the broken needle is the left hand needle, but it can be done. So I kept at it and made good progress. I really like the striping - I haven't even come to the end of a full colour cycle yet!
Unfortunately, yesterday evening I broke the other tip off of the same needle. And that definitely screws me.
- 2007-Nov-19
- And after casting on the first ball of new sock yarn, well, the cat was already among the pixies, so what the hey, I cast on with the second ball, too. Work stalled, though. This is not, unfortunately, because I have the willpower and sense of responsibility that would enable me to resist a non-deadline project. It is simply because I couldn't find the fourth needle. I think I did spot it, however, this morning while taking knitting pictures.
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