I finished Omelet last Wednesday. I have the perfect photo shoot planned for showing off Omelet, but it won't happen until this weekend so you guys will just have to wait until next week to see the finished shawl. This week I've finally gotten to move on to the socks I've been itching to start. At the end of July the first sock snuck onto my needles during a weekend that was not good for lace knitting. Since the sock was not in the knitting plans I turned my attention back to Omelet rather than immediately casting on it's mate.
I love the colors that Deborah Norville yarn offers, but I'm really getting tired of their winding practices. Can someone please explain how two skeins of yarn in the same dye lot can be wound in opposite directions? After knitting a few inches I discovered the stripes on my second sock had been reversed. I ripped back and restarted. I probably should have ripped back and restarted a second time so that the blue strips at the top of the socks were the same width. This pair of socks is for me and I have no intention of frogging an entire leg and heel just to add 1/4" to the first stripe, but it still bugs me a little that they don't match perfectly.
Oh geez. That's annoying. At least you can wear pants over the cuffs so you won't have to look at the unevenness.
ReplyDeleteI hear the knit socks are the best. I haven't gotten past just a wash cloth myself. But maybe one day! For now it's just quilts and cross stitch.
ReplyDeleteI totally linked back to the link up and not my own link. Oops, wrong copy and paste! http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/2013/09/11/wip-work-in-progress-wednesday/
ReplyDeleteYour socks are lovely! I am a big fan of fraternal socks and never really worry about whether they match or not.
ReplyDeleteCute socks! I'd be totally bugged too to find the stripes had reversed themselves! That just shouldn't happen!
ReplyDeleteI, too, am a fan of "fraternal twins" for socks. I like self-patterning yarns and I'm too eager to get started to bother making sure I'm starting in the same place with both socks (I knit two at a time).
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