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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

WIP: Vanilla Socks

Every morning I commute downtown to my office job and then back home again in the late afternoon. What does that mean? It means I have about an hour of knitting time while other people stare at their smart phones or talk (too loudly) to each other on the bus. It also means that I always have a simple knitting project for on-the-go time.


I currently have a pair of vanilla socks on the needles. This is a self-striping yarn by Desert Vista Dyeworks in the Zombody It's Cold Outside color. It's hard to see the light gray stripe up close but it's more visible from far away.


I'm using a US #1 (2.25 mm) Hiya Hiya Sharp 32" circular needle and the OMG Heel by Megan Williams. I haven't really found an afterthought heel that fits me like I want but it's hard to fiddle with heel flap and gusset socks with self-striping yarn; I end up breaking the yarn and joining it to keep the stripe sequence. How about you? Is there a heel you like to use with self-striping yarns that fits well and doesn't throw the stripes out of whack?

9 comments:

  1. Wow, those are some seriously stunning stripes!

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    1. Thanks! They keep vanilla socks fun, that's for sure.

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  2. That yarn is stunning! Perfect choice for socksQ

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    1. Her stuff is dye to order and she has a ton of colors.

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  3. I love that yarn! I love it when awesome colorways have really fantastic names too :)

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    1. Thanks Kat! She has a whole zombody series that I really like.

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  4. Can't go wrong with vanilla socks. I like how this colorway is like flower beds among blue skies.

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    1. It's so pretty for being a zombie colorway, right? I like your flower beds and blue skies description a little better.

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  5. Love this self striping yarn, and it must be lovely to have this daily knitting time during your commute. I don't have a good method for elegantly getting the heels done with self striping yarn, my usual strategy is just knitting and hoping it ends up looking nice by itself, which is a pretty lousy strategy.

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