Pattern:Usual sock hybrid
Yarn: Pagewood Farm Chugiak,
(approx
420 yds) Method: Hand
knitting Completed: June 8
2010.
These are my standard socks -- toe up, following Wendy's Toe-Up
pattern, and Cat Bordhi's Riverbed Arch expansion/plain heel. I
used Barbara Walker's "Welting Fantastic" pattern (from "A Treasury of Knitting Patterns")
for the ankle, done on a multiple of 10 stitches. I
chose this to get some rippling into the pattern, breaking up the yarn
striping.
I was astonished to run out of yarn before completing the second
sock! There are 450yds per skein of this yarn; I usually
use less than 300 for a pair of socks for myself, and these were not
shaping up to be unusually tall. I must have been knitting much
more densely than usual.
Detail shot -- welting.
Left picture -- see how
little yarn was left, when I had several rows to finish to match the
first sock.
Right picture -- completed sock (with one fewer welting patterns, in
both socks (ripped the first one back)), and leftovers.
In retrospect -- the yarn from the sample might have been enough to make the
diff to finish the second sock on original plan, but it's not clear.
