09-10-2017

OK - because the slate and midnight don’t play nicely together (they’re the two tones that clash), and because I have enough yarn without the slate, I’m going to forego using the slate in this pair of socks…

14-10-2017

OK, just finished the first sock and, while it went a bit differently than I thought (given the maths I did before I started) but it was pretty close and I used ALL the yarn ends!

22 ends to weave in (I don’t like carrying up the yarn, too irritating to do along with magic loop) but if I’d broken down the stripes into panels of half the width (by weight), I would have had 44 ends to weave in…

See red notebook for a diagram (to be attached in photos here too) and instructions about how to do this again - even if the idea of using yarn ends is that you figure out every individual situation based on the yarn you find yourself with. In the event that I have this approximation of 3 yarn colours again, this is a nice blocky sock.

WEIGH AS YOU GO

Started with 18g blue, 11g linen, 5.5g mink.

Broken down the stripes look like this (from the cuff to toe):

Blue - rib cuff / 4g / 16R (row here means 60st in k2p2 rib on US0 needle)
Linen - cuff end and leg / 2g / 7R
Blue - leg / 4g / 19R (row = 56st in stockinette on US0)
Linen - leg 2 / 3g / 12R
Mink - heel flap and heel / 3.5g / NA
Blue - most of gusset / 4g / 17R
Linen - foot 1 / 3g / 11R
Blue - foot 2 / 4g / 16R
Linen - foot 3 / 3g / 12R
Blue - foot & toe / 1.75g / 16R but most of these are toe decrease rows
Mink - tip of toe / 0.7g / 6R tip of the decrease rows

I have 1.38g of mink left after sock 1 (to use up first on the second sock). This amounts to @ 4 rows of 56 stitches in stockinette (i.e. the way I define rows in this sock).

On the topic of weight to rows, keep this in mind:

My vertical gauge is generally 10R per inch using a size US 0 needle. Numbers below reflect use of Sweet Georgia and Zen Yarn Garden, both of which I love so I will use again. Sweet Georgia is a slimmer gauge so it goes very slightly less far than the ZYG.

Blue (ZYG):

1R = 0.25g
4R = 1g
16R = 4g

Linen (SG) / Mink (SG) note:

1R = 0.266
3.75R = 1g
7R = 2g
11R = 3g

14-10-2017

I’ve figured out, through this exercise, that I use the following weights / approx rows of yarn to make one sock:

Cuff Ribbing - 5 g / 20 R / 2”

Body - 8g / 34R / 3.5” (if you have more yarn increase by 0.5”)

Heel and Flap - 3.5g / NA / 1.5”

Gusset - 4g / 20R / 2”

Foot - 11.5g / 39R / 4” (if you have a bit more yarn go another 0.5”)

Toe - 2.25g / 20R / 2”