{"id":771,"date":"2006-02-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2006-02-01T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:00:00","slug":"baby-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Baby socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since panzermama<\/a> got her parcel in the mail, I can now post info on the baby socks. This has been previously posted to the knitting channel, I just like having a record elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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I made a pair of baby socks for panzermama<\/a>‘s adorable little sprout out of Lorna’s Laces sport<\/a> on size 3 needles. Even though the recommended needle size is 5, size 3 needles worked great for me.<\/p>\n

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I thought I’d do a baby hat out of the remainder, and wanted to get a nifty color swirl effect, like rainbow sherbet. I should have realized that if I got a good result with size 3 needles, I should stick with size 3 needles. Instead, I went up to size 5, but couldn’t get the swirl quite the way I liked. So I went up to 6, and through trial and error figured out that an 84 stitch cast-on gave me a good swirl pattern. I THOUGHT my gauge was 6 stitches to the inch. I measured, honest.<\/p>\n

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Partway through, I can no longer delude myself. This hat’s way too big for a baby. Turns out I’m at 5 stitches per inch. And the fabric looks awful because I’m changing my tension too dramatically to try to keep up the swirl pattern. I was able to modify the tension to be more even and still get the swirl, but it’s still way too loose because I’m using needles that are too big.<\/p>\n

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So the moral of the story is, check your gauge twice. Look on the internet for recommendations, because many sites list the proper needle size for this yarn as 2-4, in spite of what the label says. Don’t try to cut corners by using a bigger size needle so it’ll go faster. Don’t compromise the quality of the fabric for a cool effect.<\/p>\n

Much as I’d like to takle this again on 3’s, I can’t before sending the package. There’s just not enough time. If I wait until I have time to tackle this again, the baby will outgrow the socks!<\/p>\n

Oh well, lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since panzermama got her parcel in the mail, I can now post info on the baby socks. This has been previously posted to the knitting channel, I just like having a record elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}