Domestic Bliss
It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting...
Love that soy.
One Soy Sock is finished! I'm using an Inox circular needle I picked up in Savannah (I've never seen them for sale in any of the local shops) - that sucker has the sharpest points of any needle I've ever used. I'm surprised they haven't drawn blood from my index fingertip (yet). They're awfully good for the toe decreases, though. I really like the way this yarn feels. It's called Wick (because it's meant to wick away moisture, so it's good for sweaty feet) and it's 53% soy silk and 47% polypropelene. It has a nice hand and it's machine washable (I have enough non-machine-washable socks). It's a good thing I made this an anklet sock, since I only had two yards left over. (Whew!)
I wanted to go ahead and cast the second sock on immediately (to avoid SSS), so I got out the ball winder and balled up my second skein. When I got to the end, I was in for a little surprise.
These are the last five yards of my skein. This piece of yarn was attached to my blue yarn by a big-ass knot. I really hope they didn't count this toward the 120 yards of #688 Blue Green I paid for! I'm pretty sure this is #191 Soft Petals. I could maybe understand this if the colors were close and someone at the yarn factory thought it was a piece of Blue Green when it was actually Ocean because they were working in crappy light, but these colorways aren't even the same value, let alone the same color. I'm hoping that this is just waste yarn they used when winding the skein that someone just forgot to remove, because if I run out of yarn before my second sock is done, someone's getting an e-mail.
3 Comments:
I am yet to make a pair of socks....is this your first pair?
By roseygirl, at 5/21/2006 4:03 AM
Hi Roseygirl! I'm not a master sock knitter by any means, but these are probably my 10th pair of adult socks - I also recently churned out about 10 pairs of baby socks for a charity. I've finally reached the point where I can make up the pattern as I go. They're really not hard, and they make a nice portable project.
By Bliss, at 5/21/2006 11:16 AM
oh how anoying about the yarn! I was knitting with some girls from the LYS last week & we were shocked by the amount of knots in some really expensive yarn (i was using debbie bliss 100% silk & it had knots thhrough itself in 3 places!) but i have never seen two different colors knitted together
By kat, at 5/21/2006 11:49 AM
