Pair 5 sock 2 heel turn
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Pair 5 completed. Intentionally mismatched in the placement of the stripes, though was aiming for something more extreme. Colour is much better in real life and photographs of feet are hard.
Undecided if pair 5 will be purple or brown and gray. I really should be working on the sweater.
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I’m very envious of your talents.
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Do I want to keep going with this colour combo or try again?
It makes me think 70s, but the brown isn’t quite there.
ETA: does this brown need a cream or linen shade instead? Where are my colour theory folks? Note, this is the grey and variegated left over from the last sock, not a blue.
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I think you’re onto it. The brown is a lovely warm colour that isn’t contrasting quite right with the cool grey.
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Remember when I said that this mass produced yarn would help me avoid my perfectionism around socks? lesigh
And I have 900 yards of navy, so it’s also the decision on whether to split it up or not. I think I will split it, since it’s a colour I could buy more of later should I decide I really want to make a blue sweater.
ETA: and this is why it’s nice to now have 3 pairs of sock needles, because I have a brown toe and a purple toe ready for later as I start on a navy toe.
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Just bound off my very first non shawl garment for myself! Do any of you have a preferred blocking method for a top? I’ve only ever blocked flat things before. This is the Seven Sisters pattern by Blue Sky Fibers. It’s knit in cotton so I’m hoping it will grow a bit and give me the loose fit I’m hoping for.
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I block sweaters by soaking them in cool water with a bit of Soak for 10-15 minutes, and the squeezing (never wringing) the water out, and then rolling it in a clean towel and stamping on it to get out more water.
Then I switch to another towel and stretch it or adjust it to my desired size & shape, generally with a commercial sweater as my example. And it let it dry on my kitchen floor, because that is where I have tile instead of wood or laminate and I don’t have small people or pets. If it seems to be taking a while, I’ll flip it over after a day to let it dry faster, or I move it to my clothes drying rack.
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Thank you! This is how I do my shawls too, I wasn’t sure if there was some kind of technique I was missing for the shaping but it sounds like I can just eyeball it once I’ve gotten the water mostly out.
Off to soak!
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sweaters do tend to be heavier, so they need a bit more support as you’re moving them around, but that’s the same as any knit garment - the sleeves always seem to want to stretch.
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Apparently all it takes for me to do 45 rows on this sweater in two days after not touching it for a month is to be avoiding finishing a presentation deck.
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So pretty!
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I am unreasonably excited that I think I’ve found my next project. I kinda decided that maybe knitting sweaters isn’t my jam since I love doing it but don’t love wearing them and then I feel disappointed that I don’t like what I made, so I’m going back to shawls and I found a ginormous one that I think I have all the wool for from my ill fated cropped boxy tee that I couldn’t get the shoulders right on. So it serves two purposes that I get to make something with the yarn of that project and I get another awesome shawl. Going to try this
Also writing this & continuing work on my fading point shawl has made me think that also I should try another top in a fingering weight or something. I think the heavier weight yarns (even though the last one was cotton and not actually physically heavy) just feel too bulky for me when I put them on, and maybe a top in a thinner knit wouldn’t be that way. I guess I’ll just be forced to experiment!
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I can’t stand wearing worsted/bulky sweaters – I think I look terrible in them – but fingering weight is much better.
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Gah, I thought I was doing the front of this sweater so fast, and got to the arm scythe bindoff this evening. Then I put it up against the back piece, and I had like 5cm difference in length. I thought maybe I had done the incorrect number of repeats of the cable and would need to rip back 10 rows.
But no. There is a mistake 10 rows ago. But more importantly, right at the very beginning, about 70 rows ago, I was supposed to repeat rows 1 & 2 ten times. But I did them five times. I don’t think I’m going to drop down those 3 stitches for 70 rows, and emotionally I’m not ready to frog the whole thing.
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