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I've mostly finished my first Coffee Mate sock. It was finished last night, but after trying it on I realized that I needed to pick out the bind off and redo it more loosely. With darkly coloured fuzzy splitty yarn this is turning out to be something of a challenge. Has to be done though!
I'm using a yarn called Katia Darling which is new to me. It's brush plied which I suppose explains the fuzziness and the splittiness. It's also very soft and warm. Other Raveler's have complained that the joins are terrible - sloppy and without regard to the continuity of the colours. I had exactly the same experience with this first ball of wool; I think you can see the abrupt transition from dark to light halfway up the leg? That's annoying. With my big feet I need all the yardage to make the socks the length I want them so I didn't think I should start cutting out sections to reinstate the colour continuity.
The pattern is a simple K2 P2 K4 P2 rib which I'm knitting toe-up with an afterthought heel. This is the first time I've done an afterthought heel, but I've always admired it on other blogs. With a striping yarn the striping pattern gets distorted with other heel constructions so I thought I'd give it a whirl here. I'm happy with the way the colours go but find this heel a bit short and square. There's probably more than one way to work an afterthought heel - I'll have to do some investigating - but this will do for now.
Now back to that bind off. I'd like to get that sorted out before I head to work this morning. Lots more to see at Tami's Amis!
11 comments:
Good for you for picking them out and doing it again. I'm too lazy to do that. Lovely colours.
Love those colours. I hate it when the colour changes like that - I've had that happen in Noro several times and find it very annoying.
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Love the colour, looking good!
Love those colors!!
Ugh. I hate it when the colors change that way. I'll never understand why they don't wind the yarn first to get the yardage and THEN dye it. I guess it's impractical somehow.
Very nice colors. I don't usually find browns to be as lovely but yours really are!
Very nice socks! I hate unpicking bind offs, good for you!!
Great colours. Very warm and cuddly.
Nice socks. I love wool socks, but I do not like making them.
From the picture the color change doesn't look to bad. Hope you were able to redo the bind off.
I get so annoyed when "pricey" yarn has joins, especially when it messes up the color continuity.
I think your sock looks great though. It doesn't seem to bother the look of the sock.
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