This is what they looked like circa October 2008.
I know the first one was finished before the end of 2008 as I alluded to an unfinished pair in my sock wrap up. Why the second one sat for so long I don't really know. For a while it was buried in the bottom of my knit-night knitting bag, below the Anastasia's and a Clapotis (Yes, I tried again. Don't ask.) Then it moved into the house for a while and just mocked me. It came to Germany in October, in the car to New Orleans in November, to Texas in November, and finally a finishing kick took over when I was sick mid-December.
Behold the shooting sock. Really that's it's name.
Pattern: Gentleman's Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern by Nancy Bush from Knitting Vintage Socks. My favorite sock book ever, this is my 4th pattern from it.
Yarn: Regia 4-ply sock. Color 1042, 2 balls, plus a little Brown Sheep Wildfoote).
Needles: US size 0 (maybe that's why they took so long!)
Behold the shooting sock. Really that's it's name.
Pattern: Gentleman's Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern by Nancy Bush from Knitting Vintage Socks. My favorite sock book ever, this is my 4th pattern from it.
Yarn: Regia 4-ply sock. Color 1042, 2 balls, plus a little Brown Sheep Wildfoote).
Needles: US size 0 (maybe that's why they took so long!)
The pattern has good calf shaping and the little triangles continue down the heel flap. That is really the only difficult part of the whole thing. Other than that it's a classic well-written fun to knit pattern.
But wait, a successful pair of socks in 2009??? Wrong. Look a little closer:
Notice anything? That's right, toe number 2 is a different color. I ran out of yarn with 14 rounds left. 14 blipping rounds. The first sock took exactly one ball. The second one took some extra Brown Sheep Wildefoote that came from deep in the sock yarn leftovers bucket. There isn't a noticeable difference in size, so I don't think it was a gauge issue, but in a year of socks like last one, who knows.
Oh well, hub is happy and it feels good to wipe this one off the WIP list.
But wait, a successful pair of socks in 2009??? Wrong. Look a little closer:
Notice anything? That's right, toe number 2 is a different color. I ran out of yarn with 14 rounds left. 14 blipping rounds. The first sock took exactly one ball. The second one took some extra Brown Sheep Wildefoote that came from deep in the sock yarn leftovers bucket. There isn't a noticeable difference in size, so I don't think it was a gauge issue, but in a year of socks like last one, who knows.
Oh well, hub is happy and it feels good to wipe this one off the WIP list.
I've had some issues with two balls, of the same dye lot, from the same company, being of different lengths.
ReplyDeleteI think they allow a lot of "slop" or a lot of plus/minus in their estimation of the lengths. And also, I've read that humidity on a given day affects things - apparently balls are done by weight not length, and on a humid day, the hygroscopic wool would weigh more - leading to a short ball.