Friday, August 21, 2009
The Fish
Yarn: Panda Bamboo and Soy
Needles: Knitpicks steel DPNs Size 0
Style: Toe up (obviously), 64 sts around
Pattern: My own
These are another pair of socks that I'm knitting when I need something mindless. Yes, that means I'm knitting more than one project at a time. I don't really finish one project before I start another, ever, but I have been making an effort lately to make sure that I do finish the projects I start! That means that I only have two or three projects going at a time now instead of so many that I lose track of how many I've started!
This yarn, with it's little bit of elastic stretch, makes a really nice finished fabric, but is difficult to knit with - which is why I'm using my pointiest needles! Even so, many stitches have split and I've needed to tink back 3 times to pick up the splits.
I meant these to be very short summer socks - socklettes, so to speak, and am just now doing the heel. As soon as the back heel flap is finished, I'll do a few rows of K1P1 and that will be that (for sock #1). If it weren't for the splitty yarn, these would be done by now!
They look quite nice. How's the Panda Soy? I love the Panda yarns I have used.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to let me know what you want me to do with those hardanger embroidery books. They're here waiting for you.
OMB! I was going to PM you on Ravelry and totally forgot!! And here you are doing me this enormous favour! I'll PM you tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteI don't do socks, but my daughter does & she complained about some splitty yarn. she hated working with it! THe fish pattern is very cool! I like it!
ReplyDeleteThey look fantastic but the stitches look soooooooo tiny and the needles so very, very slender. No wonder the split stitches are a nuisance. I keep looking at my sock wool and those wonderfully colourful sock needles you bought me and think I should really get started. Although will summer looming I'm not sure what chance there is of that at the moment! LOL
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