I’m having a little knitting ADD this week. On April 1 (no fooling) I started a pair of camo rib socks (well, just the first one).
It’s just a very basic toe-up sock with a stockinette sole, short row heel and 4×2 ribbed instep and leg. I’m using what I learned in last Saturday’s knitting class and knitting the socks (one at a time) on a single 40″ US1 Addi Turbo needle. I’m really enjoying this technique!
The short row heel turned out well, although I did have to rip out all my short rows once, halfway through it. There don’t appear to be any ridiculously huge holes, either.
I’ll be heading to the LYS for a little while today to knit. I should really get back to work on the corn snake socks. But I have a feeling I will want to whip out the camo rib instead. Maybe what I need to do is a little of both!
I also completed a small swatch of knitting (just a plain stockinette tube) using some of the Lana Grossa Cool Wool leftover from the baby socks in the March 31 post below. Since I’ll be giving the baby socks to my SIL for my nephew, I wanted to test-wash a swatch first so I could give her proper care instructions. Now, the ball band on the yarn says “non-felting” so that was a good sign. But it doesn’t outright say it’s superwash or anything. It does, however, say that the yarn is 100% merino wool. I didn’t know what to expect, but after washing the swatch (cold water, front-load washer — no agitator, swatch placed in a mesh lingerie bag) and air-drying it on a towel, it did not shrink, felt, or otherwise show any damage or distress. What I totally did not expect was that after washing it a second time in the same manner, and then drying it in the dryer (low heat, along with other clothes, swatch removed from the lingerie bag), it STILL had not shrunk, felt, or otherwise showed any damage or distress! This is very good news for baby socks. And for my own, considering the camo rib socks are made from a different colorway of the exact same yarn.
