She Was Twisted

Knitting!

The sun was shining, it is warm and lovely – you couldn’t ask for a better day. Well, except for the fact that I am stuck inside working.

I loved knitting my last pair of sock blank socks so much that I decided to knit another pair. What is a sock blank? Let me enlighten you!

Here is one of the reviews from Knit Picks:

“Anyone who’s ever hand-dyed sock yarn, or knit from a skein of hand-dyed sock yarn, has been bedeviled by pooling colors. Knit Picks has a new product which takes the guesswork out of dyeing sock yarn. Sock Blanks are pre-knit tubes of undyed sock yarn. You dye the pre-knit tube with the stripes that you want, then knit your socks directly off the tube. Somehow this seems like cheating, but in a good way.” Yarn Scoop

Here is what my blank looked like after dyeing:

Things I love most about knitting socks from a sock blank:

1. You can easily dye stripes and patterns.
2. It is double stranded so you can knit two socks at once.
3. When knitting, the yarn does not twist and tangle the way it does when knitting from two separate balls of yarn.
4. You end up with two identical socks.
5. It keeps your knitting interesting without the need for any pattern repeats.
6. Provides endless mind-boggling for others trying to figure out why in the world you are creating TWO knitted pieces without any yarn in between.

Definitely give it a try. I’m not sure if I will ever knit any other way. Yes, I’m that impressed.

I finished my first purple cable sock and have about 3 inches done on the second sock.  Woot, woot! I am very proud of myself for actually starting the second one. I have the worst case of second anything syndrome. After I’ve done it once, I’m usually bored and ready to move on. But these socks are keeping me going. Here are some goody shots:

First up, the finished sock. And yes, this photos turned out terribly blurry, but they will do. I love the way the cable show up against the yarn – something that I see get lost all the time with handpainted yarns. But this rainbow dyed yarn from Fearless Fibers is the best. Love it.

And here are two photos showing that I really and truly have begun the second sock.

Maybe I can get these finished before the blistering Arkansas cold is over? Now wouldn’t that be something….