Color of the Day: Purple

August 16th, 2006

I finally decided to do both projects with the Sassy Stripes yarn. One pair of ankle socks, and my chevron scarf which was the reason I bought the yarn.

I had to knit the scarf with two strands so it was thick enough, and fit the width. It’s coming along nicely though, and I like how the two strands have created the stripes. As you can see, there’s a solid dark stripe, then a mottled dark stripe, then a solid one. The mottled stripe is when the two strands aren’t the same color at the same time. It’s coming along nicely!

I’ve noticed, one problem with this scarf is that it’s one sided. This isn’t really a problem, but just a drawback I suppose. I was considering putting a tassle, or sewing some sort of embroidery or pattern on the bottom and top edge of this scarf. It might make it look more straight and uniform.

Ahhh, and the new pair of socks. When this is finished, it will make three complete pairs of socks. I must say I love this really thin sock yarn. If I had made it earlier, I could have worn it this summer without too much problem (on those days when socks are even possible that is). I still have a problem with a big hole on each side of the heel from when I started the gusset. I need to find a way to get rid of that hole while I’m knitting, instead of trying to fix it later.

I have a feeling that since I didn’t do very much of a cuff, I might be able to fit a whole pair of socks on one skein. At the very least I’ll have enough left on the first skein to fit a good portion of the second sock.

I decided to attempt my idea for an uneven sock on this pair. It’s coming along alright so far, and seems to fit nicely to my foot. However, I’ve had to rip back to right before the toe because I need to add a few more rows to the foot. I didn’t make the foot long enough, so my toes feel a wee bit squished!

Basically what I’m doing for the toe is doing the decreases every row on one side, and on the other side only decreasing every four rows. I calculated that I had to decrease 52 stitches on 18 rows, so that seemed to work out right. We’ll see if it fits alright when I do the last toe row, and try it on before grafting. I can’t wait!! Oh, and the only problem that I can forseewith this idea, is that I may forget to make sure that I make one left and one right foot sock. It would be quite a silly thing to end up with two left or right feet!

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