You lucky people, you get to read twice as many of my mutterings this week. Please contain your enthusiasm.
- Stuck :: in the elevator.
- Elevator :: stuck (see above).
- Vaccine :: measles, mumps, rubella.
- Pepsi :: yuk. Give me Coke [Zero] or give me death.
- Rotund :: round.
- Wonder :: Woman.
- Solo :: Han.
- Voodoo :: economics.
- Sticky :: peanut butter.
- Summarize :: executive summary.
- Disappointment :: sadness.
- Searching :: for my stitch markers.
- Counters :: row.
- Snippet :: of conversation.
- Carol :: Christmas.
- Tiresome :: bore.
- Booger :: eww.
- Freak show :: circus.
- Summarize :: executive summary.
- Heartache :: not getting gauge.
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Now that I am done with all promised knitting, I cast on a pair of super-warm socks for myself. Aran weight sock yarn on US#3 needles.
Crappy photo in artificial light. I didn't bother with jogless stripes on the bottom of the foot.
A more accurate depiction of the colors.
The new socks will use rest of the yarn from these.
The previous socks weighed 155g. I had 180g of yarn left: 92g of the brown, 47g of the teal, and 41g of the white. Since I had a limited amount of yarn I had to do some fancy schmancy math to figure out the stripe pattern. I knew I wanted to do contrasting white toes and heels and possibly cuffs, which meant the body of the socks had to be all brown and teal. How to figure out a stripe pattern so I wouldn't run out of one color?
My calcs. Literally, back of the envelope.
The blue and teal together are 88 g: 53% brown and 47% teal. If I did a 100-row pattern, I could do 53 brown rows and 47 teal rows and it would come out exactly right. But there is no way a 100-row pattern was feasible. A 10-row stripe pattern would need 5.3 rows of brown and 4.7 rows of teal. Still a no-go. I settled on a 20-row pattern:
- 8 rows of brown
- 4 rows of teal
- 2 rows of brown
- 5 rows of teal
Rows that narrow mean I can carry the yarn, which means (yay!) no ends to weave in. I think it will be okay. Lying in bed this morning I realized I could have tried to use some section of the Fibonacci sequence, which might have been more eye-appealing, but that would have meant ripping back a couple inches of the foot. Not worth it.
Warm feet, here I come!
