Now, that was a nice long blog break, wasn’t it?! Not intentional, I assure you. It’s funny how summers for parents are busier than the school months. We’ve had day camp — long, hot, exhausting, but lots of fun — swimming lessons, birthday parties, a bout of ‘flu for Laura — whew! Not a lot of time for knitting, let alone blogging about it.
But if you’re wondering if a skein of Jitterbug is enough to make a pair Jaywalkers for a size Australian 8/US 10 foot, the answer —
is no. My feet are smaller than the recipient’s, so it’s not just a matter of an inch and a half, either. Gaah.
I did think about ripping them out altogether and making them shorter in the leg, but frankly I like them a bit long, and so suspect that it would be better to have them "too long" rather than shorter, so that was out. I ran to the yarn shop and bought another skein, which was quite obviously not the same dyelot, and then had to decide whether I should just carry on or pull out half of the foot and alternate skeins — I decided that it would be apparent either way, and that it would be much less likely to show if the new part was further down the foot. Much less work for me, too! so it was an easy decision.
The colors, curiously, are not as variegated in real life as they are in the photos — the reds and yellows don’t pop out as much as they seem to here. I tried all sorts of various settings on my camera, but none seems to capture the essence of the stuff. You’ll have to take my word for it. The second skein is definitely more subtle, as well as — rather alarmingly — of a finer gauge.
And here is a pair of socks for Julia, which I finished last night. The pattern is from Ann Budd’s Handy Book of Patterns, with a picot edging and 3×1 rib, lined up with the picots because that’s the kind of knitter I am.
Posed by Julia on the edge of the bed. She doesn’t like having her picture taken unless she’s in the right mood, so I may have to wait for a modelling shoot!
I found the picot edging to be extremely fiddly at this gauge, and will most likely not attempt it again with the Wildfoote, which was not only very splitty, but I had chosen a color (Columbine) which made it difficult to see what I was doing, with its "tri-color twists."
Nevermind — Julia is happy!
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