Phew! I need a little sit down... I have been so busy this week it's not funny.
First of all, some knitting.
A lot of us look at patterns and think "Mmmm, pretty, but I would never wear those because ..."
(delete as applicable)
- they are lace and I don't like socks with holes
- they have cables and I don't want to wear cables
- they are too short
- they are too long
- that style of heel doesn't fit my foot
- they are children's socks
- they are man-socks
- one would be fine but I know I would never want to knit two of them
With this in mind, I asked some lovely knitters if they could help me out by knitting single socks so I would have some samples to take to shows.
The socks have started to arrive!
All of them are knitted in "bonny".
First is one from Sally, who is awaiting final thesis-release and is woman-fully resisting the temptations of a new loom until it has been bound and delivered.
This is Meida's sock(s) by Nancy Bush from the book "Favorite Socks".
It weighs 30g (as a scientist, Sally will approve of me weighing the sock).
I am sure she said that this was done without a cable needle!
And then we have three socks from Debbie.
Snicket Socks (ravelry link), by Sabine Riefler. The original pattern has the latticework continuing down the front of the foot rather than as straight lines.
This is Eunice, by Cookie A. from the new Sock Innovation book.
I love the way the trellis goes into the heel.
Another Cookie A. pattern, Monkey, with deep plum contrasting heel and toe.
I would like to say a HUGE "Thank You" to both Sally and Debbie, for these.
There is still another Shop Update to go this week and those of you who have the newsletter know when it will be, broadly speaking.
I have uploaded the photos onto flickr here.
You are looking for pictures numbered from 781 onwards, in the set marked "next update".
If you read the titles you'll see that some of the yarns are called "Skeinlets".
It seems to me that we don't always want a whole skein of laceweight. I think this especially true in the Summer months when perhaps a little something to accessorise a T-shirt on holiday, or to pop into your pocket on a breezy day is closer to what's needed. We don't always want to buy a whole 100g in an accent colour when 30g would be plenty.
Skeinlets are the answer.
They are made by dividing a 100g skein into three. Much burning of midnight oil and many adjustments to skeinwinderyness were needed to achieve this.
The skeinlets are approximately 32-34g in weight, and contain approximately 380-400m of yarn.
You will appreciate this is not an exact science, and if a pattern calls for 390m, please buy two skeins, I cannot do this any more accurately than I have.
In this particular update, I have shown three Skeinlets in each photo. I also have another whole 100g skein waiting to be divided (dyed at the same time so it's as close as a hand dyer can get to a matched dyelot). If you order 100g, I obviously won't divide the whole skein, I'll send it as one "portion".
Flickr seems to mangle the colours a bit, most of them are brighter in real life.
When I upload photos onto the website I go straight from iPhoto and since I don't want to be tweaking the images for flickr and then again for the website, I'm leaving them as they are.
Have fun browsing...
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