Pooling and Flashing
Here are my finished Calla Lily socks. I love this yarn's stitch definition, the colors, and the soft finished fabric. I was sorely disappointed, however, with the pooling and flashing. I knit the legs on 64 stitches, as written, and used 68 sts for the feet. I needed to do SSK with the first st slipped knitwise and the second slipped purlwise, to get the left-and right-slanting decreases to match exactly. Does anyone have any advice for how to minimize the pooling? Are the skeins that different? My gauge was exactly on: 8.5 sts per inch. I'm looking forward to the next installment! These were completed in exactly 2 weeks--my fastest pair of socks to date!
posted by eyeknit at 7:44 PM
4 Comments:
I think those are absolutely gorgeous! What's great and fun about making these socks is that they don't have to be alike - the little differences and the big ones, are just awesome. They make them unique, which is just lovely! You knit them beautifully,
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I think that alternating skeins probably is the best way to minimize really dramatic pooling. I sort of subscribe to the "wool girl" philosophy that fraternal twin socks are good, so I never bother to do it. But I think that would help.
I think you are the first on this KAL to post finished socks - Congratulations. I think they look great. I personally like the pooling - probably because I really like the colors and the pooling shows off each color better than if the two colors were intermixed. But if you don't want pooling I think Laura had the best advice: alternate skeins when you do the August Petals Collection socks.
I like 'em!
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