Wonderful socks, that I did almost completely according to the pattern.
I love Gansey
Only change: the toe. At the moment I prefer a short-row-toe instead of a band toe, as the pattern said. But that's hardly noticeable. And I lengthend the foot by one heart repeat.
But what colour should I choose. My favourites are bilberry and sigh - look here for colour cards - with a slight advantage for bilberrry. But I like the "original colour" (melody) rather much, too.
Yesterday I started a new pair of socks, although I have 3 single socks laying around. There's a good reason for this - I needed a sock to knit during my use of public transport and all of the singles were too complicated to start the second one on the go.
That's why there is "Sisters go round".
But having single socks is rather stupid (what shall I do with them?), I'll start pairing socks.
At the moment it's growing at a rather slow pace. It's not a problem with the pattern but rather with the yarn. Or better not-yarn. It's industrial yarn, 6 strands and probably somehow conditioned to make it work better with machines. After washing it changes significally and gets much smoother and softer. I could have skeined everything, washed and dried it and then reballed it. But we are talking 6,7 km of yarn! Because I ordered the yarn as two-stranded in three different colours and now knit from three cones / balls in varying combinations. Alone to ball half of each cone was more than enough boring.
Since having short circulars from Addi everything goes a bit smoother.
Tubey - erster Ärmel / first sleeve
On this picture one sleeve is finished and the second one is 1/5th finished. I did start at the center of the back so the stripes are matched on both sides and I don't have to do too much math.
My first little modification to the pattern: I did the last few rounds of the sleeve in garter stitch to prevent it from rolling up.
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