Tuesday 25 November 2014

the colo(u)r purple


Quite by accident, I seem to be into purple knitting at the moment - it is one of favourite colours but not one I knit with very often. Hmm. Don't know why.  So, squishy bed socks (pattern is Elgin, yarn is Drops Nepal, toes are warm) it is. These are my first go at toe-up socks and now that the toe is done they're knitting up quickly, but jings, crivvens and help ma boab, how anyone can say that toe-up socks are 'easier' (because there's no grafting) I have no idea - provisional cast-ons are a monumental pain in the bum! Still, I don't need to think about that until I get to Sock 2.

I'm really looking forward to wearing these socks.  As long as I have warm feet I'm pretty much happy, and every time I look at this sock I'm smiling in anticipation.

I wasn't going to mention the Cabled Thing again because I've done nothing but catalogue my mistakes with it, but I like the picture below so much I'll just mention that even when sewn up and finished, it turned out that there was a problem. Somewhere along the way I'd dropped a stitch - don't know how, I had the right number of stitches.  Hence the crochet hook holding the stitch in place.


I just love the colours in that picture though - the deep blackberry purpliness of the knitting and the coppery orange of the crochet hook. I took the photo yesterday afternoon and although the knitting was on the window sill there was barely enough natural light to get a picture without flash. The camera has overcompensated slightly for the low light, but I like what it's done for the colour, and actually this is the closest that any of my photos have got to the richness and darkness of the wool. I can imagine you can see my problem now!

3 comments:

Annie Cholewa said...

You need a COWYAK provisional cast on ... Cast On With Yarn And Knit. I've been working that way for ever, but more recently Tech Knitter shared a great post on the method. Honestly, it is a total breeze, it's why I don't balk at including provisional cast on's in my patterns.

Peeriemoot said...

Oh, that's genius! And also bleedin' obvious when you think about it, kicking myself a bit now :-D. Thank you!

Mrs. Micawber said...

Ha! Was just going to recommend that exact post - glad Annie did. Techknitter is a genius and I love her blog.