I got a wiggle on with the socks last night and got them finished off. I soaked them for 15 minutes and gently blocked them overnight. I'm really happy with them and enjoyed the whole process:
The socks took 75g of the merino yarn. There are more of these socks in my future, I can feel it!
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Friday, October 2, 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Handspun Socks.... Same but Different!
Carrying on from my previous post, I decided to knit socks with my hand dyed superwash merino that I fractal spun:
I'm surprised at how they have turned out, how the colours shift and that the two socks are so different yet they go together nicely as a pair.
I'm almost at the finish line with these, the yarn has been beautiful to knit with and it gives me great satisfaction knowing that a week or so ago this was a bag of undyed combed merino top and is now almost a pair of warm and smooshy socks.
I decided on plain socks as I wanted to show off the colour play rather than go for a fancy pattern. Sometimes with handspun it's best to let the fibre/yarn do all the talking ~ less is more.
I'm surprised at how they have turned out, how the colours shift and that the two socks are so different yet they go together nicely as a pair.
I'm almost at the finish line with these, the yarn has been beautiful to knit with and it gives me great satisfaction knowing that a week or so ago this was a bag of undyed combed merino top and is now almost a pair of warm and smooshy socks.
I decided on plain socks as I wanted to show off the colour play rather than go for a fancy pattern. Sometimes with handspun it's best to let the fibre/yarn do all the talking ~ less is more.
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