During my day of wasting time yesterday, I did a lot of work on my sock! Look, it’s even starting to look like a sock and not just a fancy tube! :)
I think I am beginning to become hopelessly addicted to knitting socks, especially socks with self-striping yarn. I bet I might have this one finished by tomorrow night, maybe even sooner! Then I get to start the second one and try to get the stripes to match up. I wish I had paid more attention to that when I started this one, but oh well … live and learn. :lol:
Ooh, those socks are turning out very nice! Maybe I should have gotten two skeins of that yarn…
I love the way the color stripes are turning out. Really cute! They’d have been just as cute just knitted plain, but I would have been so bored, so I am glad I did a fancy stitch to keep me interested. :D
Only problem I am dealing with now is that I knitted so much on it the other day, my fingers are rebelling against doing any more, and I want to finish this one and get the next one started RIGHT NOW! :lol:
Self-striping? Who could have thoguht of such a thing? What kind of mind could get a scok to do that? It must be pretty complex on your end too, you have to end at the right spot. Something new every day!
Yeah, I’ll probably have to restart the second sock a few times to be sure I get the stripes to match up as closely as possible. I wish I would have thought about that first, because it would have been easier to roll it into two balls that would create matching socks, but … oops … didn’t think about it until I had done so much I didn’t want to take it all out. I’ll be smarter next time. :D
I’ve been thinking about dying some yarn myself to make it self-stripe. Now that will be a challenge!
I didn’t even think to try to start my second sock in the same color area as the first. Then again, I personally don’t mind if they are a bit different anyhow. I figure the patterns turn out a bit different depending on who is knitting with the yarn. So I guess matching socks is not one of my major concerns.
I’m going to try, but I’m not going to try too hard, to match the stripes. I really don’t care either, but I do like a challenge. If it looks like I will have to waste too much yarn to make them match though, oh well … non-matching it is! :D
I’m sure if someone else used this same yarn, the stripes would look slightly different. I knit so tightly, which is why these small needles are giving me such a time of it. I tried not knitting tight when I started on it, but I can’t help myself. I want those stitches TIGHT apparently. I’m getting a callus on the tip of my left index finger from pushing the needle tip through the stitch. I should switch which finger I use so I can get calluses on all my left fingers so guitar playing wouldn’t be so unbearable. :lol:
Yep, I’m a tight knitta myself. I am making socks with size 3 DPNs right now. I also started a pair with size 1 needles but I’m not sure if I’m going to use those or not. Not only are the needles tiny and hard to deal with because I knit tightly, but the yarn is different shades of grey and white and the needles themselves are grey, so it’s really hard to tell what you’re doing.
I will never go smaller than size two. I can’t even imagine working with smaller needles, and whenever I see those size 0, 00, and 000 in the stores, I can’t believe anyone willingly knits with them. I mean, HOLY HELL those are small!
And yes, needles need to be in sharply contrasting colors to the yarn you are working with. This one scarf I knitted last year, the yarn was a maroonish purple and so were my size 7 needles. It nearly drove me insane. I had to knit sitting in direct sunlight or with a lamp shining right on my work, and even them, it was sometimes hard to see the stitches thanks to the yarn being one of those fuzzy ones. And Lin keeps asking why I buy needles in really obnoxious colors … well, because I know I will never knit anything in fluorescent orange or pink, so I won’t run into this problem again. :D