I got the yarn, needles, and color cards from Knitpicks.com last week. The sock colors don’t go together quite as well as I’d hoped, so I’m going to order a light tan that I think will blend them well. The brown is kind of scratchy. It’s their Essential sock yarn, and the first time I’ve knit with superwash wool. My original thought was to do stripes of the brown and turquoise, with brown diamonds in the turquoise stripes, but it looked very southwestern, which isn’t what I was going for.
Nate wanted to know what I expected from brown and turquoise, and I have to admit, that was pretty short-sighted of me. But we both agreed that adding a tan would help.
I’m glad I bought more than one size of needle, because their 1 feels a lot bigger than my bamboo dpns in the same size. The swatch I got with the 1 seemed loose and messy.
and the swatch I did with the 0 was very tidy, and felt like a good fabric.
I think I’m just going to do stockinette and wild, mis-matched stripes. Nothing too exciting as far as technique goes, but they’ll be cute.
I finally picked a color palette for our Christmas stockings. YAY! For those of you familiar with Wool of the Andes, it’s
Red
Hollyberry
Rain
Winter Night
Evergreen
Avocado
Daffodil
and Cloud
I’m going to order them today. I also think I want to make Nate’s Echo Lake Cardigan out of the Andean Treasure in Cinnamon, but that has to wait until we pay for our bathroom and assess our financial standing.
That being said, we’re going on a double date this afternoon with some friends to the Fluevog store in the city. Remember what happened the last time we were there?
I’ll show pictures.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:37 am
Reading your Post just reminded me of Christmas Knitting! I have not even thought about mine yet. I have been far to obsessed with my itty bitty baby knits for our baby due in December. BTW – Greeting from Sweden – I just wanted to say I so enjoy your blog .
August 21st, 2006 at 8:04 am
Using Knitpicks’ Essentials in brown, I knit the “Retro Rib” socks from an issue of Interweave from a few years ago…I totally agree about the rough texture, and watch out, the yarn stretches out of shape too. The experience was enough to turn me off KP’s sock yarn forever. Not to discourage you though…I like your color combination, & hope you get satisfying results! Good luck! ~sharon
August 21st, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I can’t even imagine going into that shoe store. I already have enough of a shoe problem!
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:14 am
Are you going to do the stockings as a KAL, like you were once discussing? If so, count me in!!
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:26 am
Knitpicks DPNs ARE bigger than regular ones, just by a little bit. So the 1s are like 1.5s, etc. At first I thought I was crazy, but its true. I like that color combo…
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Absolutely love the shoes. I had a pair back in the late 80’s. They were like pilgrim shoes with a big huge buckle…and were way way way pointy…like pop a balloon with them pointy. I wore them until they were falling off of my feet. Love the Fluvogs. I had totally forgotten about them. Gotta get me downtown and pick some up :o) The bat caver in me still lives strong :o) I can’t wait to see the stockings either!
August 24th, 2006 at 6:07 am
How funny that you mention the Echo Lake Cardigan. I finally resumed the sleeves on my husband’s long-awaited Echo lake this morning…Sorry about your table!