Next Pair: Inca Blues
Paton's Inca yarn is a blend of wool (50%), acrylic (30%) and alpaca (20%). It's chunky, warm, and quick to knit - the perfect follow-up to my stripey socks.
The colourway I've chosen is 7020, and is comprised of three strands of blue in varying hues. It reminded me of work socks, for jamming into gumboots and heavy work boots. But whereas they were coarse and prickly, this is soft and plump - ideal for someone who works from home and hardly wears shoes!
It's toe-up again, because I have no idea how long I want them to be, and frankly, I quite like doing the provisional cast on, and making sure I get a good fit around the foot. Especially as I'm knitting this on a 5MM ciruclar needle, with a gauge of 4 stitches/inch!
Right now I have 28 stitches, an am contemplating whether I'll need 30 or 32. We'll see, I guess. At least with so few stitches, pulling it undone will be quick...
Once I've got the toe sorted, I'll be casting on the other sock, so I can work them together/alternately as I did with the stripes. Given that I still haven't finished the second of another pair (done to the leg, mind!) I think this way definitely works best for me (in my quick experiments I found working two on two circular needles together too messy/tangling). Still, I'''d best take the unfinished sock to my WW meeting tonight and get it done while I wait. Or I'll still be talking about it next month!
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A friend of mine, sparkli (she has a blog here too), keeps heckling me to try socks on circs, but I keep resisting. I may have to break down soon and give it a shot. I definitely want to try a toe-up sock, because that just makes so much sense to me - if you think you're going to be short on yarn, you can just shorten the cuff end.
happy knitting! :D