Got some new yarn!
Well I did it. I finally broke down and purchased honest to goodness sock yarn. I have to say both sock and lace yarns offer more knitting pleasure for your knitting dollar. I also have to say that if socks or lace scare you; don't let them!
Knitting socks is like sculpting with yarn. Knitting lace is like drawing with yarn. Both are super-fun, and offer hours of happiness. Since sock and lace yarn tend to be of much nicer fibers than your average Drugstore, or variety store carry in their yarn sections.
For socks start with something ultra-simple like the Universal Sock Pattern. If you have experience knitting lace, or intarsia, you can adapt that pattern very easily to fit your fave patterns by changing the number of CO stitches, or altering the lace. Easy-peasy.
Of course lace is by far the easiest of all. Folks will tell ya to print or buy knitting graph paper. I have to say that I have no problem imagining what stitches will look like while using plain old graph paper, and since it's available in tablets and filler paper style, it's my personal fave. Basically it's connect the dots. After you practice with one of the easy free lace patterns, it's easy enough to adapt said pattern or create your own. Just think of it as connect the dots with YO replacing the dots. The sample knitting for my silk yarn is adapted from the fishtail lace pattern. If folks need a little extra lace help, just leave comments. I'll help as much as I can.
Back to my new yarn. 100 gram ball of Regia Jubillee colors in Antigua. It's just lovely. Was thinking I'd cut out the fair isle bits. But that would just mean an absolute ton of russian joins. Yuck. Talk about a chore. So now I'm thinking I'll just knit up Potamus. It's a fave in the sock knitting forums, and now that I have proper yarn, I just have to give it a try. If I don't like the white fair isle stripes, I'll make a dilute dye solution for a pastel flash wherever there's white. Will use teal, and will just make the blues bluer, while muting the white :).
Today was my second time eyeing and feeling up the gr8 big skeins of merino fingerring weight. They're less than 25 bucks each for over 1,000 yards. Have a feeling I'll break down my next visit to the yarn shop :).
Knitting socks is like sculpting with yarn. Knitting lace is like drawing with yarn. Both are super-fun, and offer hours of happiness. Since sock and lace yarn tend to be of much nicer fibers than your average Drugstore, or variety store carry in their yarn sections.
For socks start with something ultra-simple like the Universal Sock Pattern. If you have experience knitting lace, or intarsia, you can adapt that pattern very easily to fit your fave patterns by changing the number of CO stitches, or altering the lace. Easy-peasy.
Of course lace is by far the easiest of all. Folks will tell ya to print or buy knitting graph paper. I have to say that I have no problem imagining what stitches will look like while using plain old graph paper, and since it's available in tablets and filler paper style, it's my personal fave. Basically it's connect the dots. After you practice with one of the easy free lace patterns, it's easy enough to adapt said pattern or create your own. Just think of it as connect the dots with YO replacing the dots. The sample knitting for my silk yarn is adapted from the fishtail lace pattern. If folks need a little extra lace help, just leave comments. I'll help as much as I can.
Back to my new yarn. 100 gram ball of Regia Jubillee colors in Antigua. It's just lovely. Was thinking I'd cut out the fair isle bits. But that would just mean an absolute ton of russian joins. Yuck. Talk about a chore. So now I'm thinking I'll just knit up Potamus. It's a fave in the sock knitting forums, and now that I have proper yarn, I just have to give it a try. If I don't like the white fair isle stripes, I'll make a dilute dye solution for a pastel flash wherever there's white. Will use teal, and will just make the blues bluer, while muting the white :).
Today was my second time eyeing and feeling up the gr8 big skeins of merino fingerring weight. They're less than 25 bucks each for over 1,000 yards. Have a feeling I'll break down my next visit to the yarn shop :).
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