swatch, again with 8 sts per inch
Third pair is now off the needles, and boy is this yarn so much softer. My swatch is still at about the same 8 stitches per inch (not that my swatch gauge matches my sock knitting gauge, which seems to be slightly looser?, but this way I’ll at least have a sample to keep), but this yarn is slightly finer than the previous two, and so much softer. We will have to see how it wears over time though-I’m hoping the bunny ply is fine enough and tightly spun enough that it won’t just shed out or felt the sock down several sizes. I did notice small, short bunny fibers flying around as I knit (causing me to sneeze quite a bit-I guess I’m just super fussy about breathing in fine fibers), but hopefully that’s an anomaly.
For this pair, I used 96.2 grams for the socks and the swatch together, compared to 107.1 and 106.6 g for pairs 1 and 2, respectively. I also added two more rows to the cuff, and 3 more to the foot of the sock, since otherwise I was worried the socks would be much smaller.
I used the eye of partridge stitch on the heel, with a standard toe, which is a slightly different combo than on pairs 1 and 2. The yarn itself also looks different-the bunny has a distinctive look and is super white.
In other news, Mommy finished her pair from the first yarn! This is the unbalanced yarn that’s somewhat harsh. I had decided to to a spiral toe on my socks, since the swatch had a tendency to lean, but Mum did a standard toe. She says that it doesn’t quite lay flat off the foot, but that once it’s on a foot it behaves nicely. She’s a tight knitter, so her pair of socks ended up with a much denser fabric, though se actually used slightly fewer grams of yarn than I did.