So last night the kilt hose looked like this:
Not bad right? Starting to look a bit more like a sock?
It doesn’t look like that anymore. The larger cable there is the back of the calf, and it’s rapidly decreasing to nothing. But, upon a quick check with both my leg and TheEnablers, it was clear that calves (well, not ours anyway) don’t decrease anywhere near that early. We must be freaks of nature or something, cause there are plenty of other folks happily wearing these kilt hose without alteration.
I ripped it back about 20rows, and I’m going to do an extra inch or two before I start decreasing again. At least I was smart enough to wait to do the frogging until this morning when some of the initial frustration had simmered down.
On a happier note, I finished my Francie Socks
They look really weird when not on a foot, because they are nothing but k2 p2 ribbing, but fit pretty well. I have some ideas around doing a variation on them, but that will have to wait a bit.
Because I’ve decided to try my hand at brioche. You know, to take the edge off of cabled kilt hose. Something a tab more relaxing…
Here’s my little practice swatch and the brown yarns which I’ve had kicking about for a few years now waiting for me to get around to making them into this pattern: Damask Cowl
I’ve successfully cast on, increased, and decreased. I think I’ve got all the critical bits covered, right? Right. I think I might wait until tomorrow to cast on the 192 st it needs though…
Winding the yarns above also meant I had to take yarn off my wall, so some of the Hedgehog Fibres yarn I bought now has a place:
A couple last things:
I recently learned about Neighborhood Fibre Co, a small indie dyer in Baltimore. This picqued my interest in particular, because I lived for a long time in Baltimore County, and I know some of the neighborhoods the colorways are named after.
And if you’re in the Pittsburgh area, one of my favorite dyers, Unplanned Peacock, is going to be at the Indie Knit and Spin later this month.