The weekend was a glorious reprieve. The eclipse Friday night was a beauty. The clouds blew passed, partly obscuring while producing an even more beautifully mysterious effect. Great light. The birds chorused Saturday morning in a promise of spring. Temperatures skyrocketed. A man ran passed me on the road wearing a T shirt yelling out, winter’s over..! Right…. until today. Sunday, I gave myself time to spend doing nothing but sitting in my chair knitting and watching movies. I made progress, good progress on the Trellis scarf. This morning I hung it up by the needles and gave it a quick steaming. Amazing what kind of additional length can be gained with a bit of steam. The project had gotten to the endless state until I realized that I could actually end it, really close. Tonight, I’ll do a few more repeats. What’s another day or so. Six inches more, that ‘ll do it.
Curiousity got the better of me Sunday morning. I had one skein of my hand dyed sock yarn left and uncharicteristically, I hadn’t made anything from it before starting to offer it for sale. I wanted to try it and I wanted to make a pair of socks with a picot edge. Claudia, thanks for the easy directions…piece o’cake. I like the result. Here’s hoping that they will stay up. I also like working with the yarn as much as dyeing it. I’ve got a 64 st sock going on a #2 bamboo circular, the kind that WEBS sells with the swiveling band.
The size seems right. I’ll scale it down a bit for the foot by using a smaller needle for the sole. There a few circular needles on there way from Knitpicks for me. Something else I’ve been thinking about trying.
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11 responses to “weekend uummm… report.”
Gorgeous sock! The colors are really lovely.
Pretty color for a sock! Our days have been warm cool warm cool…it’s spring!
My Options just arrived…quickly, too!
I can see why you’d like those colors! Sort of the cobbler’s wife syndrome tho, eh? Looking forward to Trellis pictures soon. 🙂
I love that picot edge – very sweet and great color on that yarn there!
I love that sock yarn. I becoming more and more fond of orange.
I wish winter was over, too. The weather’s warming up here and there’s no snow, but I just can’t avoid this foreboding feeling that the sky is going to dump a ton of unexpected snow on us. Like it did last week. What the…?
I like the way the colors are distributed. I did those socks also, easy knitting with just a tiny detail, keeping you knitting to see how progresses. Temps not about 10 and w i n d y here. I baked all morning.
I do like what those colors are doing…but I had NO doubts. Good colors. I always forget about the smaller needle trick, and do decreases. Smaller needle makes sense.
Beautiful colors! I love my Knitpicks circs and plan to order more.
Gorgeous yarn…
i love it. I knit almost exclusively now with Knit Picks. I think you’ll like them.
I really love your sock. The color is gorgeous. The picot edge looks just dainty enough. If you have trouble with it not staying up, try threading a couple of lines of elastic thread through the private side of the hem.
That is a delightful sock-ette. The picot edge, of course, does nothing for the staying-up. If you have enough negative ease, though, that will do the trick.