The sock mojo never dies
Apr. 24th, 2020 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzAfter bowing out of the Madness did I sigh and throw my needles aside?
Did I find a new hobby?
No way! I have so many pretty socks to knit, I'd better get to it.
During the Madness I wrote about how I would no longer buy Drops yarn (like Drops Fabel) and never knit or crochet any of the Drops patterns because they steal other people's patterns and force Local Yarn shops to run sales that are unprofitable for them. I mentioned wanting to get rid of the Fabel from my stash in a sideways manner on the Ravelry forums and Helga said she'd happily take the rest of it off my hands. And then a pandemic happened and we were quarantined.
Somehow, this Madness adopted this as a second purpose. Of course the first purpose of the Madness is to have fun during the competition, but now I also tried to use up as much Drops: Fabel yarn from my stash as I could.
After frogging the Lacy not Lazy socks from Round 3, the bordeaux Fabel yarn I was using came free again, and I wanted to knit a fun sock from my Soxx book. I packed some scraps of blue yarn from the scrap bin as well. The original plan was to use the blue scraps as contrast colour, and the bordeaux as main colour. They had enough contrast. but it just didn't look right. So after knitting both cuffs in lavender blue, they were frogged.
Adding a scrap of white Fabel did the trick! Now it's a wonderfully fun sock. I knit all of what you see in the picture since this morning!
Using scraps is always a bit of a fun challenge. This time I am cutting all scraps in two to make sure I get two socks that are very nearly identical.
I'm not sure I will make it with the yarn I have, but it's an easy thing to add more scraps of blue. I may need to knit the foot in another colour if my white runs out though...
...and it's all good. It's fun! It's simple. It's striking. And it's almost Kings-day worthy.
Did I find a new hobby?
No way! I have so many pretty socks to knit, I'd better get to it.
During the Madness I wrote about how I would no longer buy Drops yarn (like Drops Fabel) and never knit or crochet any of the Drops patterns because they steal other people's patterns and force Local Yarn shops to run sales that are unprofitable for them. I mentioned wanting to get rid of the Fabel from my stash in a sideways manner on the Ravelry forums and Helga said she'd happily take the rest of it off my hands. And then a pandemic happened and we were quarantined.
Somehow, this Madness adopted this as a second purpose. Of course the first purpose of the Madness is to have fun during the competition, but now I also tried to use up as much Drops: Fabel yarn from my stash as I could.
After frogging the Lacy not Lazy socks from Round 3, the bordeaux Fabel yarn I was using came free again, and I wanted to knit a fun sock from my Soxx book. I packed some scraps of blue yarn from the scrap bin as well. The original plan was to use the blue scraps as contrast colour, and the bordeaux as main colour. They had enough contrast. but it just didn't look right. So after knitting both cuffs in lavender blue, they were frogged.
Adding a scrap of white Fabel did the trick! Now it's a wonderfully fun sock. I knit all of what you see in the picture since this morning!
Using scraps is always a bit of a fun challenge. This time I am cutting all scraps in two to make sure I get two socks that are very nearly identical.
I'm not sure I will make it with the yarn I have, but it's an easy thing to add more scraps of blue. I may need to knit the foot in another colour if my white runs out though...
...and it's all good. It's fun! It's simple. It's striking. And it's almost Kings-day worthy.
