It’s not
that I’ve frittered the time away this morning – it’s that the computer has
been unusually obstructive, even for it. Either way, having at last got this
far, I must be brief.
The v-neck
vest is still an inch short of the armpits. I hope to reach that point today
and thread the stitches on waste yarn for my husband to try on at bedtime.
Separate lengths of waste yarn for front and back, as I will proceed separately from here.
No steeking this time.
I am pretty
confident about size, although I seem to be getting more stitches to the inch
than I did in the swatch. (That’s the trouble with swatching.) Both of the
electric red Brownstones I knit last year came out large, despite careful
attention to sizing. I am hoping for some leeway here.
That may
leave time for a few more rounds on Ketki’s Van Gogh socks. Plan for the day.
Miscellaneous
from Zite
Simply Sock Yarn wants knitters to
test the sock yarns people send her. What a job! She’ll have a million applications,
but I just thought I’d mention it.
I kind of
like this faintly
ridiculous pattern. I’ve had my eye on Kauni for a while. Lower neck, over
a white shirt?
Sock
knitting
An
infinitely kind blog reader in Ohio
I’ll still
be knitting madelinetosh by Easter, but I’ll take a tape measure to Loch Fyne
and size everybody’s feet.
I love Lucy Neatby's heel - it fits my foot better. Her book has lots of excellent tips about sock knitting in general. Have fun with it!
ReplyDeleteI'd rather take a few sheets of white paper and a pen. you can draw around the feet of each person and measure properly at home, when needed? length only, of course, but I usually get on fairly well with the number of stitches I find in instructions...
ReplyDeleteOr measure their forearms from outside of bent elbow to wrist - that's pretty close to the length of the foot, on most people.
ReplyDeleteWeldon's Vol.1 (Piecework facsimile) has many different heel and toe forms; one ought to fit. Nancy Bush updated a few of them for modern yarn sizes in Knitting Vintage Socks. It's odd that your husband hasn't complained about the sock fit before now; maybe the fit is a more "acceptable" complaint than the color?
I am glad you made that comment about swatching. I swatch and swatch and swatch and I don't know why, because the the tension I get on the swatch is never the tension I get on the larger project. People ask why I am always knitting with Shetland wool from Jamieson and Smith or wool from Briggs and Little and I tell them because I know what tension I will get.
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