Last year, before
Christmas, I got caught in the crosshairs of the Canadian postal strike -
http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin-postal.html
- ended up double ordering and by the time I finally got the Canadian order, I
was socked out and just put it away. You know, out of sight, out of mind. The
other day, I got it out and just started in on knitting without really
evaluating the situation. After knitting the third pair of rather plain (for
me) socks, it dawned on me, I think I had a plan when I ordered this stuff. Looked
in my photo file and yeah, I did have a strategy. Not that I forgot about those
awesome boots, but they were the inspiration behind this order. I wanted some
red socks to wear with these boots – I had bought them a half size up from my
other JFs https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2017/12/sox-talk.html
which were a little on the snug side but
these red ones are a bit on the large size and, I thought I needed a longer
cuff because the boots are higher. Anyway, it's really hard to find cool sock
yarn to go with red boots. These are pretty boring except for those Kroy ones!
Realized
I ordered the Patons Kroy for a reason – it’s a little heavier than most of the
other sock yarns. Lana Grossa, Regia, Paintbox, etc. are 390 to 420 m to 100g
which translates to 3.9 to 4.2 m per 1 g. Patons Kroy is 152 m to 50g which is
3 m to 1g. Never actually figured this out until now, I just knew from using it
in the past for myself that the Patons socks were thicker when made the same as
the other yarns - makes a difference when wearing other boots or shoes.I know what you’re thinking, oh gosh, she’s going to go on and on about socks again! I’ll shut up now and just knit…
2 comments:
Gosh - I love those Red Boots! I was wondering if you have a circular sock knitting machine to make socks? I always feel guilty that maybe all of us in the US bought all of the Canadian machines and left you with nothing!!
I have a Legare 400 and a Creelman Improved Moneymaker - both Canadian made, and one US made Franx & Pope - (which I really think was contracted to be made by Legare.) When I talked to Mike Becker, he told me these machines could be tricky to use, but having been a flatbed knitter, I had very few problems learning.They had been re-conditioned by a good seller, so were working well. Sorry,sorry,sorry to be hogging 3 machines!
Linda from Indiana
No worries, Linda! I don't need a sock machine! I'm using my Japanese Silver Reed knitting machine with ribber to make them in circular and the socks are fabulous with a nice stretchy rib cuff.
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