Question : Well, after comments from Sissel and Susan, I was dying to know.. will this sock pool at the gusset and wreck the harmony that I'd work (let me remind you, I've ripped 4 times) so hard to achieve?
Answer : Do pigs fly?
It didn't on the first, so I tried again on the second and had similar results.
The colours are far lovier in real life and I'm going to take a photo in daylight just to show how pretty they are. There was a bit of pooling at the gusset but it's not too bad. I'm just pleased that the yarn behaved itself when I got to the foot.
Now, the thing about giving knitters yarns or kits for Christmas is, I always do that and as a knitter who has been working her you know what off doing Christmas presents, wouldn't any knitter prefer to have some made for them that more yarn for the stash? Although the choice between chocolates and hand knitted goodies can be hard to make, especially, if it's Belgian chocolate. If you think Swiss chocolate is better, you can always send me some and I can do a blind taste test :-)
(NB: I'm not caging for free choccies... really, it was only a joke.. and yes, I am a wee bit obsessive)
Polly, everyone is raving over the Kiri, and when I click on that link I get nothing but the broken-icon. Is that just my computer or is it because everyone really is hitting your site?
Posted by: Debbie at December 22, 2004 03:05 AMHello Polly,
I love your socks ! I have some LL in my stash, and must try this out ! I don't know if you remember me, but we once met on a Rowan workshop with Jean Moss (couture knitting in 2002). I read your report about your trip to Brussels - actually when you were at 'La Mort Subite' you were very close to the one yarn shop I know about in the centre of Brussels ! If you ever want to visit Belgium again, just contact me. I can give you a tour in my home town (30 minutes from Brussels). I have 3 great yarn stores in town !
All the best,
Dominique in Belgium
Posted by: Dominique at December 18, 2004 02:51 PMI have just completed some socks in Lorna's Laces Childsplay - very bright colours - they have both pooled (and really pooled, more like a lake) at the gusset, but they have pooled in the same place in the same colour, so as far as I am concerned, that is a design feature.
Posted by: Jill at December 17, 2004 08:10 AMHi Polly, your socks are beautiful. Very nice. A question for you - what do you re: blocking? I have a pair of socks with cables, made out of superwash merino, and I don't want to flatten the cables but I want them to look "finished." Any advice would be appreciated.
Posted by: Dana at December 16, 2004 04:31 PMJust the smell of chocolate has me drooling. The chocs on the Christmas tree are my downfall. I have to buy extra supplies to keep the numbers up or there would be none left.
Last year DH left just perfectly wrapped foils there, I had no idea there was nothing in them!
Polly, if you thing that's pooling then you haven't really seen pooling! Lindt white chocolate balls are my favourites - but caramello koalas are an extremley good every day munch!
Posted by: Lesley at December 16, 2004 06:31 AMPolly, in a previous life you were Very Good. Your karma is impeccable, with socks for sure.
And I'm such a philistine that I wouldn't even notice pooling, ever, if you weren't fussing about it. Hand knit socks are good. End of story.
xoxox Kay
Posted by: Kay at December 16, 2004 02:36 AMOh, Polly, you just have the gift. If I'd knit those, they'd have pooled for sure.
Posted by: Susan at December 16, 2004 01:04 AMPolly, your socks are wonderful, and such very little pooling that it is hardly noticable. I don't know how you do it. Very well done, you deserve as much chocolate as you would like, Belgian, Swiss or whatever. The Belgian Seashells are my downfall.
Posted by: Louise at December 16, 2004 12:48 AMPolly, your socks are wonderful, and such very little pooling that it is hardly noticable. I don't know how you do it. Very well done, you deserve as much chocolate as you would like, Belgian, Swiss or whatever. The Belgian Seashells are my downfall.
Posted by: Louise at December 16, 2004 12:47 AM