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January 09, 2006
Who are you....
... and what have you done with Elka? Oh wait I am Elka but something strange is going on. I often say that I am not a sock knitter. In fact I am sure I have written that sock knitting is not travel knitting being rather icky. In my goal to knit 3 non~ Michelle socks I decided to dedicate Sundays to socks.
This week was such a bust. I started with a hank of Anne sock yarn and the Jaywalker pattern but after about 4" of leg knitting I realized my gauge was way off. Finished circumference of 7" and I couldn't imagine knitting the yarn any looser. So then I pulled out my Lorna's sock yarn and the Conwy pattern which I had worked on previously:
If you were reading my blog way back when you may recall I didn't like the pooling. I wound the second ball of yarn and worked with both alternating every round. Within a few inches I decided the pooling was worse than before since, by some absurd fluke of nature, both balls started at the exact same place in color sequence and each pool was now twice as deap. Ewww. Then I dug out two hanks of Shelridge Farms Soft Touch Heathers yarn in color Fury which is way more green than the website shows on my computer. I restarted Conwy. MAN I love this yarn in this pattern. Pros: its a 3 ply and therefore more rounded which any aran knitter will tell you shows cables more clearly than a flattish 2 ply, its a semi solid which shows the cables more easily than the variegated lornas, its slightly thicker than the lornas so the cables pop! Yep SFSTH is so much better than Lornas IMO. And I finished the decreases cause I cannot stop knitting sock
happy knitting
Posted by Elka at 09:52 PM