Tofutsies: Mission Accomplished!
May. 6th, 2007 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamagotchaI finally finished a pair of socks I've been working on for my MIL... they'll be sent off tomorrow, but I'm being horrible and posting them now because I'm so proud of myself. My second pair of socks, yay! I've got another on the needles for Linc (green and grey and sparkly), and I'm doing swatches with some Trekking XXL 100 for some socks for ME!
This yarn first caught my eye because of the color (they're Lorraine's colors), but then for the name: Tofutsies. Apparently they use some sort of soy fiber to make it, but they totally lose their potential vegan audience with another addition of chitin (shells from shrimp and crabs and such). Antibacterial, sez the package. That's nice, sez me.
Still, it was fun yarn to work with. I did it on size 1s (losing one of my Crystal Palace needles sometime during the toe decrease of the first sock, but it's not so hard to use four needles). Oddly, the package recommended using size 3s, which was sort of strange... I tried that, and while I'm not the tightest knitter in the LYS, it was all loose and lacy and completely inappropriate for a sock.
The pattern is sorta made-up, ribs of 2k and 2p down to the heel, then continued to the toe on the top and just plain stockinette on the bottom. Basic heel flap, I think (I used it on the first pair, too), and Kitchenered toes.
Now to get the next pair going!
This yarn first caught my eye because of the color (they're Lorraine's colors), but then for the name: Tofutsies. Apparently they use some sort of soy fiber to make it, but they totally lose their potential vegan audience with another addition of chitin (shells from shrimp and crabs and such). Antibacterial, sez the package. That's nice, sez me.
Still, it was fun yarn to work with. I did it on size 1s (losing one of my Crystal Palace needles sometime during the toe decrease of the first sock, but it's not so hard to use four needles). Oddly, the package recommended using size 3s, which was sort of strange... I tried that, and while I'm not the tightest knitter in the LYS, it was all loose and lacy and completely inappropriate for a sock.
The pattern is sorta made-up, ribs of 2k and 2p down to the heel, then continued to the toe on the top and just plain stockinette on the bottom. Basic heel flap, I think (I used it on the first pair, too), and Kitchenered toes.
Now to get the next pair going!
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Date: 2007-05-07 03:40 am (UTC)Um, I have to ask... are you knitting matching socks?