Posts Tagged ‘sock blank’
The first time….. a sock with a special pattern…Nice to do….
and after weeks……and weeks…I did finish them….
my ‘poncho’ sock blank socks…..
It took some time, but here they are….
After knitting 6 pairs of hosetops for new members of
The Highland Regiment , I had enough…..
However…from time to time… 😉
Undone again! The yarn looks nice….
‘poncho’…..
‘stripes’…..
‘gaudy’…..
Time for knitting…..
Last Sunday I dyed these ‘future socks’ !
‘poncho’…..
‘stripes’…..
‘gaudy’…..
The big question now is….what will the socks look like!
These socks were baptized by Alexandra with the name…’Halloween’ socks 😉
It is so surprising, knitting with the yarn of a dyed sockblank.
Thanks for the idea of the black band at one side of the sockblank Meta…..it looks great!
I knitted my own sockblank. I used needle nr. 6, 2 threads and 40 stitches.
A friend and member of my knitting and spinning group adviced me to dye this sockblank with a black band at one side…..
After washing the blank was undone again…..
…..and now I am busy knitting two identical socks, with my own dyed colour pattern.
My friend was right, the repetition of the colour black gives a very nice effect.
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Here they are. I knitted them simultaneously on 2 circular needles.
First the width wasn’t good. Then they were to small. Now I am wearing them and they fit perfect.
It took some time 😉
While dyeing, I was very busy taking care of the layer underneath.
Many times I peeped at the back side if I didn’t add to much dye liquid and dried off if necesarry.
Finally I carefully turned the blank and adjusted the places were extra dye was needed.
Hoping it was not to wet, I put the rolled up plastic on a tray above the water in my dye pot and turned on the gas cooker.
The time I had to wait until the steam had done it’s work and the wool package was cold again, seemed days….To my surprise there was not much dye in the water, when I washed and rinsed the blank.
Visiting the stands on the Farm and Country Fair I bought a sock blank. I couldn’t resist.
Next step is dyeing and knitting.
