I have started my first pair of these with Opal. Kept me sane while watching over
a sick husband and being stranded in San Antonio last weekend. This is the first
commercial yarn I have knit with in about 5 years! I love it. The color way I got
was a red grape with darker spots. It is knitting up w
At 12:02 AM 11/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
Beware the funky sock yarn that knits up into patterns... it is
addicting!!! I'm on my 4th pair. Now my thoughts are wandering to
trying to dye my own "funky sock yarn".
Teresa (in Michigan)
Only FOUR pairs. If you want to do your own dyei
Beware the funky sock yarn that knits up into patterns... it is
addicting!!! I'm on my 4th pair. It's so much fun to watch the patterns
appear without even thinking about it and if you pay attention to
where in the color changes you start the first sock you can make the
second
>> I have to seam the ribbing... a flat bed doesn't do circular
ribbing.. but that is no big deal to me, the stockinet stitch can be
done circular. <<
I have an old knitking (I think) 820, w/a ribber. I wouldn't mind seaming
the ribbing. In fact, I wouldn't mind being able to use the KM.
> A sock machine, Bond, or metal bed?
> wrnk
> d2
>
One of four metal flatbeds. ;-) I knit four socks today
unfortunately, they were all done as samples, trying different styles and
techniques. Once I decide how I want to make them, it's nothing to zip out
a pair of socks in no time. I
>> I'm knitting my socks today, on my knitting machine. <<
A sock machine, Bond, or metal bed?
wrnk
d2
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Mostly the fiber contents were a blend of superwash merino and nylon. From
> the description on some of their web sites, the yarn was listed as
> "printed", as if someone has a way of industrially doing the "handpainted
> yarn" thing with commercial yarn.
>
The one I got - Fortissima Colori Sock
>> the yarn was listed as
"printed", as if someone has a way of industrially doing the "handpainted
yarn" thing with commercial yarn. <<
Yup . Once a run is done and sent out, that's it
for that colorway.
wrnk
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A while back someone was asking about the new sock yarns that knit right up
into patterns - I was in a well stocked yarn store last weekend and they had
at least 5 different brands - some knitting into "fair isle" type patterns,
some random, and the one I chose "Fun & Stripes" with 4 alternating co
