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Why is it that whenever I have to make two of something they always look like crazy cousins instead of siblings, much less identical siblings.
I have come to accept the idea I read about in the Yarn Harlot's Meditations for Women Who Knit too Much book about self patterning socks being expected to have fraternal rather than identical twins. At least I sort of have accepted this.
As an aside, my mission on my next pair of self-patterning socks is to try and make them at the same time and hopefully they will match because I will have developed a magical ability to make the patterning in the dye shift at will...
I've enjoyed reading lots of Thankful lists. I started the socks for my SITM Twice Swap Pal, but I've also made 4 mittens, none of which looks remotely like the others. Ugh.
2 months ago
I am fanatic about socks matching! LOL Actually the women at my LYS tell me I am anal. What I do is pull out the color for quite a while to see how the colors change. Then I choose the end of one color and beginning of another to start the sock. I only knit one sock at a time, so I have a little notebook that I keep notes in and I write down where I started the sock in the yarn pattern. Age makes me forget if I don't write it down. Then when I start the second sock I pull until I come to the same color change. The only time this didn't work is when I did some tiger-colored socks for hubby. They weren't self-striping, but the pattern should have been the same, and it wasn't. Oh well, he still wears them Take care!
ReplyDeleteWOW, you've already started the socks....I'm still learning about my spoilee. I can't wait to see the mittens, even though they are not twins. I have been teaching myself to knit two socks at the same time and I am liking it. I'll post some "results" later this week....
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