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Luxor
Paul’s socks are finally done.
And I have no complaints—except that boys socks are stupid and boring. I came home from Tangled Skeins (post bacon with Stephanie) with three wonderfully colourful new skeins I got from their boxing day sale. Paul was to choose which he would prefer. The problem, however, is Paul did not like any—so we returned and I let him pick out his own colour.
Not that the colour is ugly, by any means—I was only slightly disappointed in the outcome. Luxor shows through the self striping yarn only faintly. So if anything, I simply didn’t match the right skein with the right pattern. A simpler ribbed sock would have been fine with this yarn. Or the blue/green skein I had originally intended would have been much more appropriate for the pattern. Even a nice black yarn would have been enough for the pattern to show through.
I liked the short row heel, which I’ve never done before. Lovely experience, though I was nervous it would leave large holes at the seem—the stitches looked very stretched, but I soon realized that knitting the stitches together with the ‘wraps’ left a very solid seem.
Lessons learned: Boys have cooties, and never let boys pick out yarn.
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