When I went to visit my family in Mass just before Christmas my sister showed me how to knit socks. I brought a skein of my own up there, but failed to take a pic of it before starting (I know, what kind of blogger am I?).
First we had to separate the skein into two equal weighted balls (50g each). This yarn is called "self-striping" because the colors in the skein vary, but different from variegated, in that as you knit around the sock, stripes appear as if you purposely knit them there. Really neat.
Then we took the ends of the balls and matched up the colors. This took a few yards to get the colors striping at the same rate; we snipped off the extra yarn.
My sister showed me the techniques she uses from the book Socks from the Toe Up by Wendy Johnson.
She showed me the "Judy's Magic Cast On" and I was off and knitting!
I am still knitting them, but I am close to being done. See how they are striped? That is the yarn doing all of the work. Near the toe, it started knitting up a peach and black checker-like appearance. It reminds me of one of my cats, Jasmine (aka Razzy); she is a Bengal cat. Her hair shafts are striped with orange and black.
I will model what I have so far:
UPDATE: Click here to see them complete.
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