{"id":6147,"date":"2021-03-13T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2021-03-13T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T08:19:29","slug":"socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the fall and winter I have been spinning a rya\/mohair cabled sock yarn<\/a>. It has taken a long time but I finally reached the bottom of the wool basket<\/a> a few weeks ago. For Christmas I had promised Dan a pair of socks in a colour and style of his choice and I have now finished knitting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A blend of lamb’s rya (dual coat<\/em>) and adult mohair makes a strong foundation for a plastic free sock yarn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dye<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The colour of Dan’s choice was blue, which was kind of vague. Lucky for him, since my dyeing experiments can be quite adventurous. First I mixed equal proportions of yellow, red and blue for a brown base. Then I added more blue and just a pinch of yellow to lean the blue a bit toward petrol. While I do love the colour it ended up a lot darker and murkier than I had planned. It is quite liberating, though, to just accept that I get the colour I get, enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I dye with my little eye and it never turns out the way I had imagined. Still, I am happy for the colour I get.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The yarn has absolutely no elasticity, so I knew I needed to make the fabric elastic. A k2p2 rib was an easy choice. Dan wanted stripes, so he got stripes of the dyed and the natural white skeins. A simple short row toe<\/a> (which I am ever amazed at and never seem to understand how it actually works) that I am particularly delighted by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sidetrack here: Provisional cast-on with a crochet chain. How is it that I always manage to fail utterly and completely with this method? I imagine just pulling the end of the crochet chain and magically unravel a perfect row of loops. Instead I end up having to untie it loop by loop. I had to check a YouTube tutorial for the second sock to get it right (which I actually did).<\/p>\n\n\n\n