I was so excited to start playing with my handspun, and then I went and left it at my Aunt and Uncle’s house when I was staying with them. I visit them for about a week every 1.5 months, and spend my time working in the lab all day. It’s the way I can justify being up north for the rest of my time, and it beats any of the alternatives. However, I have to be careful not to leave my next project in the wrong place…
This is a six ply homespun, where half of the plies are grey (shetland/alpaca/nylon blend) and the other half are a polwarth/silk blend dyed by Three Waters Farm. I am super pleased with how these socks turned out. They are plain, but perfectly matched right up until the toe. In spinning, I split the roving lengthwise, and then spun it such that the colors would be symmetrical from the two ends. Then when knitting the socks, I knit the first one from the outside of the ball, and the second pair from the inside. I was not expecting the colors to line up anywhere near this well, in part because I wasn’t super careful for this roving about making sure the sections were of equal weight.
Instead of using my plastic foot model, I had my mum help me model these socks! As a reward for taking such fine pictures, I let her keep the second half of the skein. I think she plans to pair it with some of her own grey homespun yarn.