What I knitted for the Rowanette Exchange

Samantha at Whizzme has received her Exchange gift from me so I can now blog about it which is good seeing as I have been itching to do for the last week or so.

Samantha's questionnaire said that she liked stripey socks and that her favourite colours were red, pinks and apple green. And that rang a rather big bell in my head as I had bought the yarn to make the 'Stripey Socks' by Sarah Dallas (from her book 'Knitting') last year - for myself.

I've never knitted anything stripey in the round so had to get to grips with remembering to twist the yarn at the colour switch over as well as remembering to do the jogless job to ensure that you couldn't see where I had changed yarns too much. I was amazed at how, when you combine both these techniques, my sock came out looking close to perfect. I am really pleased with where my rounds join.

I usually gripe a little bit at Rowan's habit of making you cast on in one colour and then never use it again for the rest of the garment (they did it for Jenny and a few other garments and it feels, to me, like a way of making you buy more yarn. I am sure that some people who are more design concious would point out the error of my ways).

But in this particular case it was perfect as Samantha had said that she liked green too so I included the cast on row too.

I really enjoyed knitting these socks and I love the red heels and toes - I think that I may need to get some more to make myself a twin pair or I may make triplets as others seem to rather like them too.

Posted by Amelia at August 23, 2008 12:44 PM