Every year on Pentecost an International CSM Group meets anywhere in Germany. This year we were at the Maschenmuseum in Albstadt.
Before the conference started I bought some yarn at Zwerger Opal. They call it “factory outlet” but that isn’t what you might expect by the term “outlet”. The yarns have - with only a few exceptions - the same prices as everywhere. They told me they are 15% cheaper at the sockknitter-meeting.
This used to be different in the past when I bought huge amounts of yarn there to acceptable prices for yarns in different amounts.

I intended a special project: to knit a double-face blanket out of sock-heels.
Why this? When I use one of my CSMs I always succeed in knitting a sock until the heel, when I often loose stitches, so I decided to exercise heel-knitting.
Two heels are knitted one after the other, the openwork is grafted together with kitchener stitch with the result of a hexagon or a honeycomb.
Putting the hexagons together formed this blanket. The two heels were seperated from each other with waste yarn.
During work I was disappointed in several ways

• the colored yarnes knitted well, the hexagons had all the same size
• The natural colored sport yarn has the same meterage and the same dyelot. However one of the cones is tending to yellow, another cone has quite another stitch dimension though I didn’t change anything at the machine. You may notice that in one of the pictures.
• The hexagons were put together in matress stitch. Because of the fact that some hexagons were bigger than others it was not easy to get consistency, some have buckles.
• The natural colored yarn has black threads inbetween what you couldn’t have recognized on the cone.

All in all this was a project with many experiences but the result is not worth the effort. I’ll use it to replace the picture in our dining room which served as a delicacy for moths. It’s the only woollen picture which suffered from the beasts though it was protected with moth paper on the back. I worked it in Zitron Lifestyle and this was the second knitwork from the same material I had to throw away.
Maybe the work can serve as a play/crawling baby blanket one day.