{"id":1855,"date":"2008-12-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2008-12-01T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:45:00","slug":"fo-holly-jolly-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"FO: Holly Jolly socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Holly<\/a><\/p>\n

FO:<\/b> Holly Jolly socks<\/i>
\nYarn:<\/b> Knitpicks Bare DK weight superwash merino handdyed by me<\/a><\/i>
\nPattern:<\/b> Made up<\/i>
\nNeedles: <\/b>US3\/3.25mm<\/i>
\nGauge:<\/b> 6.5 sts=1″<\/i>
\n

\nNotes:<\/b>
\n\"holly<\/a>
\nDyeing this yarn was a test run for my Yarnomatic ™. It’s basically a bunch of lengths of PVC pipe which I can combine in different ways, Tinkertoy style, to drape the yarn around in various configurations. This was one gigantic hank, longer than I am tall, acid dyed using cold pour and then steamed on the stovetop. I’m pleased with how this turned out. The color repeats are about 3 yards long for the red and a bit longer for the green. It striped up just as festively as I hoped. So festive, in fact, that it’s tough to get a good shot of the finished sock that doesn’t blow out the red and make the green look blue. The “in progress” one probably has the most accurate color.<\/a>

\n\"Holly<\/a>
\nThis was knit toe-up starting with 20 stitches and increasing to 44. The heel was an afterthought heel, great for preserving the pattern in self-striping yarn. These took 160 yards. The ball band calls for a size 5 needle but I’m a loose knitter. I think I could have gotten away with knitting them on a 4, but I wanted them to be sturdy.<\/p>\n

My daughter is enthralled with Christmas, so my father suggested this would make something nice for her. She agreed. The bad news is that she has big feet for a kid, at 9 inches long and 8.5 inches around. The good news is that she likes ankle socks. These are very thick and I think they’ll be good for sleeping and lazing around the house.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking over what else I might like to do with 84 yards of Holly Jolly yarn.<\/p>\n


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FO: Holly Jolly socks Yarn: Knitpicks Bare DK weight superwash merino handdyed by me Pattern: Made up Needles: US3\/3.25mm Gauge: 6.5 sts=1″ Notes: Dyeing this yarn was a test run for my Yarnomatic ™. It’s basically a bunch of lengths of PVC pipe which I can combine in different ways, Tinkertoy style, to drape the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}