February is For Finishing Frankensocks
I joined the "February is for Finishing" group on Ravelry - because the UFO completing fairy is taking its sweet time in making it to my house. Today I finished weaving in the ends on my Raindrops Keep Falling on My Socks. I started working on them April 2007, and they have been sitting on a shelf for at least a year just waiting for me to finish the toe on the second sock. Why the delay? Well, it turned out that I ran out of yarn. This is what happens when you knit a size 11 sock at 11 stitches to the inch. In a cable pattern to optimize yarn consumption. I had some leftover Socks that Rock, so I used it to do the bottom part of the short row toe. Note the perfect grafting job at the bottom - they may be Frankensocks, but they are Frankensocks without a visible seam. Sock #1 knit up fine, but the first time I knit Sock #2, something seemed wrong - then I realized that I had used a 2.25mm needle rather than a 2.0mm needle - so I frogged it back, and then put the socks on a shelf because some other project caught my eye. Next up is either Hand Hoodies or Yummy Fable gloves - I am realizing that my projects often get put aside at particularly finicky or difficult points in the pattern. Do I want to figure out how to knit the thumb on the first Yummy Fable glove, or figure out how to do applied I cord with a circ? Sounds like a good night to do laundry! Labels: Finishing |
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I'd suggest the applied i-cord, it is easypeasy!!!
Nice! Love your solution for running out of yarn.
The socks look great! And isn't it nice to clear something like that off your plate?
I love your solution!
I came here after searching for ideas on Ravelry and saw your "Lines in the Sand Sweater" and that you bought some of the yarn in Whitby....that's where I lived for 25 years....I was just looking at your blogger profile and LOVE your answer about the forks/spoons/knives. I sold Cutco for awhile! LOL. What a crazy small world the internet has made this planet!
Nice Frankensocks, great solution and IMPECCABLE grafting!
Laundry sounds like a good solution when your brain is full -- but then you can sit down between loads and figure out applied I-cord! (easy, rilly, and fun in a way!)
Hmmm.. I most definitely read a couple of articles about this topic and it brings me back down memory lane :)
The question that I ask myself is what caused something like this to happen or be written??