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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Jaywalker Salad, Anyone?

Thank you for your comments on Trellis. I'm glad that I can help some of you out by giving you my opinions on the pattern. I know there are many people out there who really like the sewing up and finishing of sweaters; I'm just not among them. I do want to add that the pattern makes for an adorable sweater, so I hope I didn't discourage anyone -- I just want you all to know what you're getting into! For what it's worth, I'm glad I knit it, because the reaction of baby Samuel's parents when I presented the sweater to them was priceless! I have no doubt that he'll be wearing it a lot once he gets big enough.

I'm getting pretty darn close to finishing the second Pea Pod sweater -- all that's left is the second sleeve, the collar, and the seaming -- but I did finish the final pair of socks for this year, pair number 39 of 2007. I returned to one of my old stand-bys:

Pattern: Jaywalker by Grumperina (September '05 Magknits)
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici (75% superwash merino, 25% nylon), colorway Arugula, two skeins
Needles: two 12" US 1 (2.5 mm) Addi Turbo circs
Started/Completed: December 18/December 30
Mods: lengthened the cuff by 1/4"

There's not much to say about the pattern -- it's easy, it looks great, it works so well with self-striping yarn, and it fits me perfectly. Simple and satisfying.

I do want to give my two cents on this yarn. I loved it. It's quite soft, but it feels like it will be quite durable as well. It's only slightly more expensive than my regular go-to sock yarn, and in my opinion it's well worth it. I'm hoping that in the new year Knit Picks will come out with some other colorways of the Felici; right now it's only available in striping colorways.

This pair did mark an important milestone for me: For the first time, I didn't worry about the stripes on both socks matching up.


In all honesty, this was probably due more to laziness than to "letting go," because the stripe sequence is quite long and I didn't feel like cutting and having a million ends to weave in.

As usual, as soon as the ends were woven in on the second sock, I cast on for a new one. You see, I made a trip to Knit One yesterday to buy some gift yarn, but I could not resist the allure of this. It's definitely a different knitting experience, but I'm enjoying it thus far.

7 comments:

  1. Isn't it fun, just knitting and not worrying?

    And the socks are great. Makes me need to go and count mine for the year...

    =Holly

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  2. Anonymous8:50 AM

    ok gurl, what's going on. how are you finishing project after project after project........... so quickly. you on vacation or something?

    Anyways, the socks look really good. I like them and you did a good job in getting the strips to line up a little.

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  3. Anonymous8:55 AM

    The socks are great! I'm jealous of how much knitting you accomplish. See you in a couple of days!

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  4. Anonymous10:03 AM

    39 pairs of socks! I'm flabbergasted - I felt proud that I finished 8 pairs.

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  5. 39 pairs of socks, nice! Lovely jon on the Jaywalkers, too! I myself never worry about matching up. I like fraternal twins! Um, fraternal socks, I meant fraternal socks...

    Have a Happy New Year! :)

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  6. You are a sock MACHINE!!! Love that arugula color way...

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  7. I have the Felici yarn in my stash and have been trying to decide what pattern to use for it. I think you picked the perfect pattern because those look great!

    I heard that the Noro was kind of scratchy. I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

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