Stripe by Stripe
Thank goodness that step by step, stripe by stripe I've finally made it to Friday. I've been so tired all week that some evenings one stripe of five rows was a tall order but little by little a good life is accomplished and its really good to have another FO.
Pattern: Plain stocking stitch with a 7 stitch 1x1 rib running down the back; I knit from both ends of the ball in alternating five row stripes
Pattern: Plain stocking stitch with a 7 stitch 1x1 rib running down the back; I knit from both ends of the ball in alternating five row stripes Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock - S184
Needles: 2.5mm DPNs
Started: 10 April 2009
Finished: 7 August 2009
I used the stationary jogless stripes technique from Techknitter to try and minimise the jogs where I changed colours and I hid them in the rib at the back and on the side/sole of the foot.
I'm really happy with the first half of both socks but the foot of each has its issues.
The much bemoaned Noro knot issue - why for the love of all that is wonderful about yarn can they not rejoin at the same/similar point in the colourway after a break? I didn't like to do that myself as I wasn't sure how much yarn I would have to pull out but I had a lot left over and it would have been worth it I think. Still I could always make sure the next sock was perfect couldn't I?
Nope, I left the yarn to its own devices again and it ended up striping two very similar parts of the colourway against each other. I much prefer the zingy contrasts than this subtly, murky merging. I should have pulled out a section of the colourway. I didn't because I'd have had to have ripped back a bit to make it look right and in a week when you need to just keep one foot falling in front of the other ripping back seems like it might send you spinning off who knows where in the time-space continuum! Also I'd just had enough of knitting with the yarn by the time I worked out how similar the stripes were going to be and just wanted to get them done. So they are, and you can't feel too badly about stripey socks like these can you?
Needles: 2.5mm DPNs
Started: 10 April 2009
Finished: 7 August 2009
I used the stationary jogless stripes technique from Techknitter to try and minimise the jogs where I changed colours and I hid them in the rib at the back and on the side/sole of the foot.I'm really happy with the first half of both socks but the foot of each has its issues.
Exhibit A:
The much bemoaned Noro knot issue - why for the love of all that is wonderful about yarn can they not rejoin at the same/similar point in the colourway after a break? I didn't like to do that myself as I wasn't sure how much yarn I would have to pull out but I had a lot left over and it would have been worth it I think. Still I could always make sure the next sock was perfect couldn't I?Exhibit B:
Nope, I left the yarn to its own devices again and it ended up striping two very similar parts of the colourway against each other. I much prefer the zingy contrasts than this subtly, murky merging. I should have pulled out a section of the colourway. I didn't because I'd have had to have ripped back a bit to make it look right and in a week when you need to just keep one foot falling in front of the other ripping back seems like it might send you spinning off who knows where in the time-space continuum! Also I'd just had enough of knitting with the yarn by the time I worked out how similar the stripes were going to be and just wanted to get them done. So they are, and you can't feel too badly about stripey socks like these can you?
Comments
But FAIL to Noro for the knots. Everyone is unhappy.