{"id":34,"date":"2009-11-30T23:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:13:49","slug":"the-selection-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The Selection Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I found myself facing a new week without a single pair of socks on the needles.\u00a0 Of course, I couldn\u2019t let that happen, so I immediately brought out my sock yarn stash (it has its own box) and my trusty A Treasury of Knitting Patterns<\/a> by Barbara Walker, and started the process.<\/p>\n

First, I picked out the possible contenders for the pair of socks I had in my mind:<\/p>\n

\"P1010104\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I narrowed it down further to the two I liked best at the time:<\/p>\n

\"P1010105\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then I decided that since I\u2019ve already proven that I like socks made out of Tofutsies<\/a> (also, since when does Amazon<\/a>* carry yarn?), I didn\u2019t want to try mixing a brand-new, experimental pattern with a yarn I\u2019ve never tried, and the Tofutsies won:<\/p>\n

\"P1010106\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Also?\u00a0 That\u2019s some pretty sweet end-finding on that skein there.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 I think it\u2019s less than 6 feet\/2 meters.)<\/p>\n

Of course, after swatching the Frost Flowers pattern for a full repeat, all I knew was that Frost Flowers + socks was not going to happen, at least not this time:<\/p>\n

\"P1010116\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty, sure, but it\u2019s alternately either not stretchy enough or way too stretchy \u2013 not sure how it manages to pull that off, but that\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n

With only minutes before bedtime, and still no viable socks on the needles, I decided to go for a more simple, reliable yarn\/pattern combo:<\/p>\n

\"P1010107\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Self-patterning sock yarn (Deborah Norville Sock Yarn<\/a> in the Thyme colorway, to be precise).\u00a0 Pattern will be my own generic 72-stitch 2×2 rib sock (fits almost any width foot, although these \u2013 like almost all the socks I knit \u2013 are for me).<\/p>\n

With only seconds left in the evening, I found an identical point in the skeins and cast on a couple rows.\u00a0 In my haste, however, I may have overlooked several other<\/em> identical points \u2013 this is the yarn I wound off before starting, from each of the skeins:<\/p>\n

\"P1010110\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice any similarities?\u00a0 Like maybe how I totally could have started right after the green instead of winding all the way through the speckled parts and<\/em> the orange parts?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say maybe I\u2019d learned for next time, but we all know that\u2019s not true \u2013 I bet I totally do the same thing next time too.<\/p>\n

*I totally recommend buying your yarn\/supplies from your Local Yarn Shop so you can support your local economy, but since I can\u2019t link to every LYS near you (well, the JavaScript involved would not be fun to write\u2026), <\/em><\/span>Amazon<\/em><\/span><\/a> seemed like a decent substitute.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I found myself facing a new week without a single pair of socks on the needles.\u00a0 Of course, I couldn\u2019t let that happen, so I immediately brought out my sock yarn stash (it has its own box) and my trusty A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara Walker, and started the process. First, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}