Back to testing...socks!
Jan. 16th, 2020 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzWhile I was knitting the Yaacov socks for a larp friend's birthday, my mind went "boooooooring" and started to look for other projects. I ran across a post on Ravelry by KnitJoyz, who designs socks and other items. She was looking for testers. I've bought two of her patterns in the past, though I never got around to actually knitting them, they would be awesome for scrap projects: the 3's enough and the Pippi socks.
Test knitting a pattern isn't something I often do, but I was in the mood for something fun. I never did check the description of the socks, I just signed up straight away. It could have been an intricate lace cable monstrosity, but I got lucky. It's a textured sock, with knit and purl stitches and some smocks. It's a wonderfully fun sock to knit and it's right up there with the other two patterns I have from her hand. More and more I'm starting to get some favorite designers I'll happily knit a mystery KAL from!
Of course I can't share any details until the pattern is published, but we are allowed to share yarn colour combinations. I'm happy to report that so far I've only knit one pair of socks that is in my comfort zone, the colour combo for this Testknit sock is right out there:
So far I have a red-and-orange combo for the Yaacov socks, a midnight blue and yellow combo for the SSOK January MKAL, and this forest green and rusty orange testknit. They are all great combinations, and all outside my comfort zone. No blues, pinks and purples for me this month!
I was a little afraid my comments would be dry and business-like, but so far Joyce is appreciative. I spotted a rather unique error in the chart vs description, where one had k1,p1 and the other said p1,k1. I'd never have spotted it if I had not started out by knitting from the description and checking in the chart how far along I was and nothing was matching up with what I had knitted. I'm definitely earning my keep!
However, I'm very happy it's not testing software. Testing knitting patterns is about as far as I'll go.
Test knitting a pattern isn't something I often do, but I was in the mood for something fun. I never did check the description of the socks, I just signed up straight away. It could have been an intricate lace cable monstrosity, but I got lucky. It's a textured sock, with knit and purl stitches and some smocks. It's a wonderfully fun sock to knit and it's right up there with the other two patterns I have from her hand. More and more I'm starting to get some favorite designers I'll happily knit a mystery KAL from!
Of course I can't share any details until the pattern is published, but we are allowed to share yarn colour combinations. I'm happy to report that so far I've only knit one pair of socks that is in my comfort zone, the colour combo for this Testknit sock is right out there:
So far I have a red-and-orange combo for the Yaacov socks, a midnight blue and yellow combo for the SSOK January MKAL, and this forest green and rusty orange testknit. They are all great combinations, and all outside my comfort zone. No blues, pinks and purples for me this month!
I was a little afraid my comments would be dry and business-like, but so far Joyce is appreciative. I spotted a rather unique error in the chart vs description, where one had k1,p1 and the other said p1,k1. I'd never have spotted it if I had not started out by knitting from the description and checking in the chart how far along I was and nothing was matching up with what I had knitted. I'm definitely earning my keep!
However, I'm very happy it's not testing software. Testing knitting patterns is about as far as I'll go.
