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April 12, 2007
WWGD?
I *really* want to have a pair of Jaywalkers. I love them. But mine are driving me inSANE. Lemme tell you a little story.
First, after casting on, I lose one of the skeins of yarn and then discover that Knitpicks has discontinued that colorway. Thanks to the magic of the Internets, somebody on Knitter's Review Forums has a spare skein to trade me. Cool!
So I knit and knit, admiring the leg of the sock like you wouldn't believe. The stripes are perfection. I knit most of the sock waiting in lines at Disneyland. Finally I get to the heel, slip the sock on my foot, and the sock is WAY too small.
So I cast on with the other skein on #2s. WAY too big. I frog and re-cast on with the #1s again, this time making the larger size. Awesome! The leg fits beautifully, even though the stripes aren't as pretty. The heel looks lovely, it turns perfectly, then I stick it on my foot (last night), and it's sort of ginormous. I keep knitting. Now the foot is pooling, and not in a good way.
So I ask you: What would Grumperina do? She'd rip it out for the fourth time, I know she would. I know people with slightly bigger feet than mine who'd groove on this sock in a big way, but can I gift a pair of socks with crazy pooling? They look like Ethan colored them with crayons. He's four. He can't stay in the lines. And besides, this colorway is MY PERFECT COLORWAY. I want these socks.
Arrrgh.
Comments
You're gifting them? Maybe you should keep this pair as your test knit, figure out where it start pooling and then on the next pair, avoid the pooling habit however necessary.
Posted by: grace at April 13, 2007 6:25 AM
I haven't done these, but I did hear of someone doing the upper bit in size L and then decreasing at the heel to the smaller size. She said it fit very well. Damn, where was that. Ah, here:
http://www.stashknitrepeat.com/2007/04/13/this-fo-was-made-for-walking/
Maybe that'd fix the pooling back into nice stripes and make the heel fit.
Posted by: BigAlice at April 13, 2007 5:43 PM
I'd offer support but really, I got nuthin. Seems to me that the only way to make it better is to make it over. Ugh.
Posted by: bob at April 14, 2007 11:59 AM
I'm such the novice. I think I'd have to just start over. But the sock itself looks great. Now I have to go learn what "pooling" actually means and how it happens and how one might avoid it!
Posted by: GoldieLocs at April 16, 2007 2:38 PM