Kauni Socks
Nov 7th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Well, I did end my Kauni socks - actually they were done on Tuesday but I haven't got about to notice them til now. They did gather with a little pet disaster.
"I suppose I find a little guilty, but knitting needles sure are tasty!"The doorway to the room containing my sock-in-progress was left clear and Zoe decided that munching on the circular needles was a sound plan. She chewed through the cord, but fortunately no yarn was harmed. She's the one who was responsible for this too, so I think I should have been prepared.But despite their close call, the Kauni socks turned out just fine:
Yarn: Kauni 8/2 in colorway W-EQStarted: 10/19/08Finshed: 11/4/08I'm quite pleased with them, and obviously my feet are the exactly right size (and my estimates on how long to get the leg are really good! because I managed to create a couple of socks with just one rainbow. I knew it would work!I've also gotten a few questions via the comments that I'll try to answer:Cindy asks: So, what's your secret?? Is there particular practice for how you clean up your gusset stitches?I don't believe I own a secret, as far as I live I clean them up the normal way - under both strands of the V made by the slipped edge stitch. I do incline to observe the tension pretty tight while picking up stitches, and I pluck up an extra stitch by basically doing a m1 increase in the bar between the gusset and heel flap stitches to help avoid the hole. Then when knitting across the picked up stitches the start time I knit them through the backwards loop to turn them and hopefully tighten them up a bit.Me (no, not me, someone named Me) asks: I just "know" Kauni from looking at pictures. The description always say it is such a rough yarn. Is it really leaving to be gracious to bear as a sock? Or do you wear other socks under your handknit socks anyway? Or am I mistaken?Kauni is a somewhat rough yarn. That said, I don't think yarn needs to be particularly easy to bear on my feet. I walk about on them all day, they're pretty tough. ; The Noro yarn is besides not particularly mild and I wish those socks just fine. Although it's also not machine washable so I'm certain the bottoms of the feet will felt a bit, I took that into history and made the socks a little larger than I usually do. And truly I was more preoccupied with the mind of these socks than thought of the practicality.I don't wear other socks under my handknit socks, although it seems people must because I've been asked this a couple times. I can't imagine wearing two pairs of socks - I run to run pretty warm and it's not that cold around here. Maybe on the coldest day in Boston.Listening to: Youth Overrided (acoustic) ~ Cave In
"I suppose I find a little guilty, but knitting needles sure are tasty!"The doorway to the room containing my sock-in-progress was left clear and Zoe decided that munching on the circular needles was a sound plan. She chewed through the cord, but fortunately no yarn was harmed. She's the one who was responsible for this too, so I think I should have been prepared.But despite their close call, the Kauni socks turned out just fine:Yarn: Kauni 8/2 in colorway W-EQStarted: 10/19/08Finshed: 11/4/08I'm quite pleased with them, and obviously my feet are the exactly right size (and my estimates on how long to get the leg are really good! because I managed to create a couple of socks with just one rainbow. I knew it would work!I've also gotten a few questions via the comments that I'll try to answer:Cindy asks: So, what's your secret?? Is there particular practice for how you clean up your gusset stitches?I don't believe I own a secret, as far as I live I clean them up the normal way - under both strands of the V made by the slipped edge stitch. I do incline to observe the tension pretty tight while picking up stitches, and I pluck up an extra stitch by basically doing a m1 increase in the bar between the gusset and heel flap stitches to help avoid the hole. Then when knitting across the picked up stitches the start time I knit them through the backwards loop to turn them and hopefully tighten them up a bit.Me (no, not me, someone named Me) asks: I just "know" Kauni from looking at pictures. The description always say it is such a rough yarn. Is it really leaving to be gracious to bear as a sock? Or do you wear other socks under your handknit socks anyway? Or am I mistaken?Kauni is a somewhat rough yarn. That said, I don't think yarn needs to be particularly easy to bear on my feet. I walk about on them all day, they're pretty tough. ; The Noro yarn is besides not particularly mild and I wish those socks just fine. Although it's also not machine washable so I'm certain the bottoms of the feet will felt a bit, I took that into history and made the socks a little larger than I usually do. And truly I was more preoccupied with the mind of these socks than thought of the practicality.I don't wear other socks under my handknit socks, although it seems people must because I've been asked this a couple times. I can't imagine wearing two pairs of socks - I run to run pretty warm and it's not that cold around here. Maybe on the coldest day in Boston.Listening to: Youth Overrided (acoustic) ~ Cave In
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