I've started another pair of socks using the other skein of Sundara Yarn I have, in colorway Troubador. Again the colors are super saturated and super shiny, like silk almost. How'd she do that?

And yes I'm on a sock-knitting rampage ;)

Well it appears that this skein of yarn is much less variegated than the one I used for the Spring Anklets (colorway Fern). In fact the color changes aren't quite so random and are more distinct, so much so that I was getting quasi-striping in the toes.

Striping on the sole

Then as I got to the foot, massive external bleeding of the color blue. Gah! I suppose this is what you sock experts out there call pooling?

My initial start of the sock had the blue pooling precisely on needle #1 and only one needle #1, every single round. Couldn't have done that if I had tried.

I ripped it out and tried again, this time casting on at a spot several inches further in, to maybe break up the pooling or at least to have the pooling be distributed on two needles like an instep and a sole. This time I got a diagonally traveling blob of blue, pictured above. Kind of cool.

The original stitch pattern I was going to use to with the variegation didn't work with Troubador, so I switched to the Pomatomus pattern. It looks funky no?

We're flying South tonight. I'll be in Atlanta for nearly three weeks. It's been nearly a decade since I've been home that long. (Oh god really is that true? I'm so old.) But I'm going home with a new attitude, my friends. I'm going to treat my hometown as a tourist attraction. Me the tourist, Atlanta and environs the destination. In reality I don't know anyone who would ever voluntarily pick Atlanta as a vacation spot - it's so corporate and new and flat despite all the Coca-Cola carbonation - but I'm going to overlook that sad fact for this trip. The goal is to see/learn/do/eat/appreciate things I never did before.

I will have to find some yarn stores too.

My mom is a knitter and a fantastic seamstress. Perhaps I'm ready for her to teach me how to sew as well...I want to make a needle case, especially with all the DPN's I've aquired lately. Hm.

Nah, on second thought, I just now searched deep within my soul and am not yet truly ready to learn how to sew. I'll just commission one from her, heh.

Comments [14]
Filed Under: Life | Socks