Knitting More Socks

Hey Everyone!

Autumn is quickly approaching, and with that, I am continuing to work on Wool socks to add to my stash. 

Yesterday I finished up a pair, using KnitPicks Palette Yarn in Victorian and Hazelnut. 

Today I started a pair for which I am using the Larch Heather and Victorian colors of the KnitPicks Palette Yarn.

I am excited for autumn to be here. I love that the wool socks I am knitting up will help fill up the extra room in my Doc Martens boots that I have. I haven’t worn my boots at all this summer. I am ready for it to be cool enough to wear my wool socks in my boots. I am trying to get as many pairs of socks done as possible before the rain and cold weather sets in, and will force me to dry my wool socks inside rather than outside on the line. 

Autumn is Coming!!!!!

Hey Everyone! 

Friday I had gone out and ran some errands in the morning. Two of the stops included Fred Meyer and Joann’s. They have Fall Decorations in stock! I am so excited I can hardly contain myself! 

This summer has been brutal. Too many 90+ degree days, and a handful of days over 100. That is too hot for me. It has been good for drying socks, when I get them done, and that is a huge when. 

The whole reason I had gone to Joann’s anyway was to pick up some more 2.25mm size 1 dpn needles. It was just as well, since I had yet another one of my first set break on me last night. 

I finally finished up this pair of socks this evening.

I used KnitPicks Palette Yarn in Marble Heather and Wonderland Heather. I had used US size 1 – 2.25mm dpn needles to knit this pair up. 

I have noticed that with the Marble Heather and the Wonderland Heather yarns they knit up better on the 2.25mm size 1’s where as some of the colors like Victorian, Larch Heather, Hazelnut and Regal knit up a bit better on the 2.50mm size 1’s. They are all KnitPicks Palette Yarn. Now that I think about it, it doesn’t surprise me that some of the colors knit up better on the 2.25mm while other colors knit up better – tension and gauge wise on the 2.50mm needles. I ran into something similar while I worked at the studio, the black in one of the yarns had to be knit up at like a 7.1 while the pink was knit up at like a 7.0 and every other color was knit up at like a 6.3 (I don’t remember the exact gauge settings but that is just a general figure), as some of the colors knit up looser and others knit up tighter we had to adjust the gauge to get uniform garments out of all the colors. A medium in the pink had to be the same finished size as the black and they both had to be the same finished size as the tan and the white, even though the colors knit up differently.