Another grey and drizzly day here, but it is 60 F, so that's a plus for sure.
The rhubarb yarn...so lovely...soft, squishy, beautiful colors...knits up into awful socks! The pooling is just plain ugly (or as my friend Leslie would say, fugly).
What's a girl to do? Why rip it out of course. And (at 5:30 this morning) cake up another skein of yarn:
Pretty and spring-like right? This is "Estuary" by Black Bunny Fibers that I won some time back from Bridget which is equally soft and squishy and oh so nice.
So, in my bag today, I have the misbehaving rhubarb yarn, the estuary yarn and the two cakes of Miss Babs that misbehaved for Mick Jagged. I have my #1 needles for socks and I have my #6 40" circular for a shawl. I'm thinking now that the estuary might pair very nicely with the dark orion from Miss Babs for a shawl (some kind of "take" on Mick Jagged -- not as much purling which I really do not like, and longer stretches before changing colors) and the daydream believer might make nice socks. And the rhubarb? Not sure what that will be.
I wonder what I will do at lunch today....
I hate it when I yarn pool like that! A good pattern to solve that problem is the Broken Seed Stitch socks. Pair it with a coordinating solid and away you go!
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A pattern with a slip stitch may help deter the pooling too.
I hate when sock yarn pools. (It's one of the reasons I stopped knitting socks...) One suggestion that works some of the time: try a slightly smaller or bigger needle. Sometimes, that's all it takes to get the pooling to stop.
ReplyDeleteIf you are like me, you'll spend your lunchtime in extreme indecision, and end up with no results on anything ... ;-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Swatch, swatch, swatch!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I'd spend my lunchtime on Ravelry, end up with too many choices and no knitting. Here's hoping your misbehaving yarn responds to a time out in your bag and you get some results you're happy with. I wonder how the rhubarb yarn would look as a Hitchhiker? (but I wonder how most yarn I come across would look in that pattern!)
ReplyDeleteRhubarb.... may it not give you anymore fits and may it begin to behave as you plan! Ahhhh pooling, it is always interesting right?
ReplyDeleteLove the colors in rhubarb, but don't like the pooling. I hope you can find a pattern that makes it happy.
ReplyDeleteOh, no.....that is such a pretty yarn to be so naughty!
ReplyDeleteJust change your stitch count and you will see it knit up quite differently! I think this is fine anyway-ribbing always poos differently that stockinette or patterning. Don't give up!
ReplyDeleteI'm maybe the only knitter on the planet who likes pooling - the Rhubarb colors are awesome! As others suggested, I think you need to change the stitch count. and I like the idea of slipped stitches, too. maybe a honey cowl or a peace cowl? (in any event, look forward to seeing what you do!)
ReplyDeleteyou know...I had that happen to my last pair of socks and I was NOT happy about that especially the amount of money it cost. Sadly it was a long time ago that I bought the yarn. Bummer about the colors.
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