Embers & Ashes

This is how the colorway goes. I'm intentionally choose a "plain Jane" ribbed sock pattern to let the YARN speak.

Lord Kitchener

Ready to graft together the toe. This is the 2nd sock, by the way. Woot.

2nd sock

Just turned the short row heel. Down the foot to the Kitchener stitch & voilà!

1st sock

This is the 1st sock. 70 sts. Top down. Size 0 dpns. Kitchener stitch over 14 sts @ toe. Short -row heel á la Sox Therapist (from Ravelry ).

Orange Crush

First sock completed. Second sock started. 2 x 2 rib over 68 sts. Size 0 dpns. Top-down.

Second Sock completed

Thanks to Sox Therapist on Ravelry for perfect heel hinges without a gap! Now, onto the next pair of socks...

Picot Hem

This is the second sock. 😀

Rainbow Socks!

Yarn hand dyed in Canada from Biscotte & Cie. This is sock #1.

Sock

Red ombre. Zauberball. First one done in just a day. How long will the second stock take? 😜

Sock progress

Fish lips kiss heel. Method. It's a new (to me) way to work a short-row heel. Very easy & pretty, too.

More pooling

This was my 1st attempt at the fish kiss sock heel. A great success. There is pooling in this colorway, but the colors are muted, and it doesn't seem to look bad (to me).

Knitting Lab

Experiment #1

The stripes are spiraling a little, but no unsightly pooling. Yay!

Planning to go ahead & make a sock out of this experiment. With a short-row heel on 60% of the stitches (38sts in this example).

The stockinette stitch may change my color pattern. But I'm going to use the 'other' end of the yarn so as not to disturb the color pattern. For the heel. The experiment continues...😎

NO more pooling!

My 1st experiment with Laura Bryant's magic number method of knitting with hand-dyed yarns is going very well indeed. 😋

I'm knitting a sock of ⅔ my magic number.

Yesterday was day 1 of knitting lab. I definitely want to repeat this experiment with previously pooled yarn in my stash!