Blue Lagoon Stripy Socks
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December 16, 2017

Blue Lagoon Stripy Socks

Project info
Knitting
Me
To fit uk womens size 8
Needles & yarn
US 2 - 2.75 mm
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
Garnstudio DROPS Fabel
Wool Warehouse
West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4 Ply Solids
Wool Warehouse
Notes

Excuse the photos - these were taken on my tablet after a day of wear blush Will get some new ones when they’ve come out of the wash!

14 stitches (turkish cast on) increased in rounded heel rhythm to 68st, 17 stitch gussets increased at heel side using lifted increases from within gusset, eye of partridge heel using other end of yarn to avoid breaking self striping pattern, 18 round 2x2 rib for cuff, jssbo bind off.

By the time I picked these back up I had managed to lose the Fabel somewhere along the way, so didn’t end up with contrast heels or cuffs!

33g of blue lagoon left over (each sock weighs 34g). I didn’t do contrasting heels or cuffs, so maybe if I did use a contrasting shade for toes/heels/cuffs then I could get get two pairs from one ball?
If so, this would be great. One sock=approx 35g, so to get four main colours from one 100g ball it would need to be 25g main colour and 10g contrast per sock - have to look at the contrasting colours available from WYS as otherwise with 100g ball of contrasting colour I’d only use 20g per pair. Some contrasts match 2 main shades, which would mean 3 x 100g balls (e.g. one peacock, one mojito, one chocolate lime) would give 2 pairs of peacock with choc lime contrast, and two pairs of mojito with choc lime contrast, and about 20g choc lime contrast left over, but could always increase depth of cuffs and even lengthen toe section a little to use a couple of grams more contrast and less main colour per sock… experimentation necessary!

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About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Garnstudio
Fingering
75% Wool, 25% Nylon
224 yards / 50 grams

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About this yarn
by West Yorkshire Spinners
Fingering
40% Wool, 35% Bluefaced Leicester, 25% Nylon
437 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: December 29, 2017
  • Updated: December 30, 2017