What Hath lwood Wrought?

[lwood]

Socks!

I have made... SOCKS!

Here's a scan of the First Sock, as the second, blocked, is now drying busily. The shared camera is currently in the cunning little talons of The Notorious DLP, which is why people wondering about the raven cloak haven't seen anything yet (the amount of the raven cloak that fits on a scanner is very wee and doesn't do it justice).

Yarn was Malabrigo merino worsted, color Paris Nights, your mileage on color fidelity will definitely vary.

I'm trying to upload into the LJ gallery thing--it might even work!



Pattern was "Simple Stockinette" from Knit Socks!.

-- Lorrie (note to self: need knitting icon)

Comments

[lferion]

OK, I am Officially Impressed!

Wow.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Really? Because I thought it actually wasn't that hard--but then again, I also realised that things like mittens had been building skills that worked up to socks, so it was more evolution than revolution.

I'm humbled to have impressed you. *curtsey*

-- Lorrie

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

One can never have too many socks.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose one can, but it would be more socks than I currently possess. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[abhasana.livejournal.com]

Sock! SOCK! :D

Very lovely.

(I just got my Lacis needles this week---woo! I'm playing with a hemp blend right now; this is going to be a fun combination.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Nice sock.

Please don't say "raven cloak." It reminds me that I am supposed to be tablet weaving the trim for some cloaks over here and have been stalling. Ayee. Too many projects.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I assure you, its mate is just as comely...

-- Lorrie

[moonrose123.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

-- Lorrie

Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[cauldronfarm.livejournal.com]

Yeah socks! Yeah knitting! Yeah Variegated Blue Yarn!

I haven't knitted much lately, but I've got a few snazzy pairs of mittens and a few socks.

But... Um... It seems the greys on your comment page are damn near indistinguishable from each other. The cursor and the background of this text box are damn close, and the vlink color for the usernames of coment-posters seems to be the exact same dark grey as their background. The dark grey vlink color on the black-backgrounded journal entries is readble in bold text, but normal text is a little squinty.

But I can't make my comment pages change color at all, so I'm jealous. Not jealous enough to pay for an account, but jealous.

-- Joshua

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I changed my style to one with a lot more grey and a lot less blue--the stylesheets are causing a small game of Hunt the Link, but the palette seem to be higher contrast.

How's it look to you?

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[cauldronfarm.livejournal.com]

I just realized how unclear it is that my "Super!" refers to your style changes. It does. It looks snazzy.

-- Joshua

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Great! Good to hear!

-- Lorrie

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[lwood.livejournal.com]

But I'm jazzed you like the socks. 8-)

-- Lorrie

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[cauldronfarm.livejournal.com]

Super!

I really lack the knitting stamina for socks, so they always impress me. Mittens of chunky yarn I can do. I even made myself gloves. But just nothing but knit stiches around and around in some fine yarn.....? No. Same reason I have never made a scarf in my life. A nifty cabled triangular shawl, but no straight up scarves.

I should post photos of my knitting to my LJ...

-- Joshua

Re: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

[lwood.livejournal.com]

But just nothing but knit stiches around and around in some fine yarn.....? No. Same reason I have never made a scarf in my life. A nifty cabled triangular shawl, but no straight up scarves.

Oh, gods, no--simple knit tubes bore me to tears, even more so in lightweight yarns because, at least with worsted yarn on appropriate needles, it goes fast! I made those socks that way because it was my first pair of socks and I wanted to learn "how to make a sock" before going along to "how to make an interesting sock". The carrot of "more interesting socks" was among the few things that got me past "the first sock", I assure you.

Those were in worsted on size 3's, by the way. The sock currently on the needles is fingerling on size 1 needles, and I just started the heel flap on the first sock. It is not a simple tube, but rather in a rib and faux cable pattern that's not only handsome, but keeps me interested. The yarn, a variegated sock yarn (75% superwash wool, 25% mohair) self-stripes slightly, which helps maintain my visual interest.

I found that mittens, as they warm you up to double-pointed needles and grafting with the Kitchener stitch, were good warmups for socks. The other thing that helped was learning entrelac, because it taught me enough about short rows that when it came time to turn the heel, I could trust the pattern and lo, it worked out--instead of me cussing it out for a filthy misprint and shooting myself in the misturned heel. ;)

The Harry Potter scarves--well, those are simple knit tubes. I haven't done one in just exactly a year (you saw it, in fact; I was working on it at KC). What keeps me going there is how much the intended recipient bounces eagerly about their scarf. Other than an HP movie, a scarf that size is only of any use in the Sierra Nevada mountains--everywhere else, at all times of year, it's just too warm! Mittens, obviously, have the same problem here, so they wind up as gifts.

Shawls are fun--I've chugged my way along through several spoooooky haunted shawls this year, including a falcon (on the occasion of an old friend dedicating herself to Freyja) and a raven. I learned how to knit with beads for the raven (shinies! THERE MUST BE SHINIES!) without stringing them all on at the start (which I never would do), and at the end Diana and I put our heads together and worked out how to attach feathers to it in a way where they could also be detached for storage, cleaning, and the avoidance of imperial entanglements (of course they're painted chicken feathers, everyone knows corvid feathers are illegal under the Migratory Birds Act. Ahem.).

So on the socks, I'm maintaining my interest level pretty well so far with stitch patterns. We'll see how that goes.

Diana got to her "bored of simple rectangles" phase, but may have put knitting down instead of progressing to lace, cables, entrelac, things that aren't rectangles, &c. She's beak-deep in Ravens of Avalon though, so her spare moments involve a notebook to jot down the current scene rather than string and sticks. 8-)

I should post photos of my knitting to my LJ...

Yes, please! 8-)

-- Lorrie