4 posts tagged “coriolis”

Baby socks: quickest thing to knit ever. Started on Tuesday evening, finished this morning. And the Lorna's Laces rainbow which looks so lovely in the skein and so horrible knitted up actually works in a garment this tiny. Especially on the heel flaps - it makes an actual rainbow! These are coriolis master pattern, not practice sock, because the practice socks are on stupidly-large needles, but using the master meant I had to guess/estimate/research baby foot sizes. I hope these err on the side of being slightly too large rather than slightly too small, but having no experience of baby feet I'm not sure.

Also afoot: plans to knit ChildHood, although probably without the hood, just because the pattern says the hood knits up large and benefits from being tried on, and there's no way that's practical. I think I'll do this with red as the main colour and orange as the contrast. This is, of course, utterly unlike anything I'd knit for myself, but that's the point of having small relatives, no? (She will be a niece, by the way; I'm knitting bright colours because I hate the tyranny of blue-for-boys-and-pink-for-girls, not because we don't know.)

And I now have a picture of the yarn I'm spinning for my mother in law. That's batch zero (the small one, before I started carding it, rather bumpy and uneven) and batch one, carded, mostly smooth and nice. It's not actually as much fun to spin as I'd hoped, partly because it's really dirty (much more than it looks) - my hands feel all grubby quite quickly, and unless I cover my clothes, so do they. But I'm scared to wash the fibre unspun in case I felt it, and because drying it after dying took ages and got in the way, so I don't want to repeat the experience. So I'm steeling myself to spin it dirty, and I'll wash it before plying.

The current plan for what I'll knit this into is a garter stitch seafoam scarf or shawl, although I haven't yet swatched to confirm I like the stitch, but I had such fun knitting Bellatrix (which is basically seafoam in stocking stitch), and it gives a nice open texture (also, more area for less yarn!) that it seems a good plan.

Yesterday I finished the Coriolis socks, and I love them. They match rather than mirror, because I forgot to read the 'second sock' bits of the instructions, but I don't care.

I used a modified version of Cat Bordhi's modified icord bind off, continuing the stitches from the spiral 'seam' into the icord. It's a bit wasted because the tops curl out, but it seemed the right edging to use - I tried single rib, but it didn't really go with the rest of the sock, and I didn't want a too-fancy edging. I'm wearing them now, and they're very comfy. The spiral does slightly restrict stretch in putting them on, but not too much, and they're fine once on.

In other knitting news, I finished the red mini-cardi and frogged it - the back flared out, and I just didn't like it. I don't know yet what the yarn will be reborn as.

I've also frogged the BMP riverbed socks. There were too many mistakes, and it had been neglected for too long. Their successor is already in swatch, though, so the general plan is still active.

Finally, I've started spinning up some BFL, but I'm planning to write that whole project up in one go, so no more details yet.

Oh, and I've got two knitting/spinning dates coming up in the next few days, so there will probably be more to write about soon.

Still thoroughly in love with the Coriolis socks, and I'm now a good way through the increases, so it's starting to spiral :-)

The yarn is variegated, but in the straight section at least, it's spiralling a bit itself, which ties in nicely with the theme.

(I worked out why I was struggling to pronounce the name - it's because my mouth was trying to say 'Coriolanus', and getting confused partway through. Working this out means I am now able to say 'Coriolis'.)

(Grr. Wrote long post, lost it. CBA to rewrite, so abbreviated version follows...)

Picture 1: mini cardigan in handspun red-and-pink two ply. Much nicer as two-ply than either of the plies as singles, although I bought more fibre because I'll probably need to spin some more to finish.

Picture 2: Ralph's tantalising socks, FO. Gorgeous pattern, interesting construction, yarn much better knitted up than I thought it would be. He likes them, too.

Pictures 3 and 4: the utterly fabulous whirlpool toe (pulled flat in picture 3). This is for the spiralling Coriolis from New Pathways, and the yarn is the red and pink sock yarn that Frax and I bought at the Knitting and Stitching Show to share, and which we finally split this weekend. It's lovely yarn to knit with, much softer and less scratchy than the blue and purple (now mostly a clapotis) which I bought at the same no-name stall. Like the Opal in the tantalising socks, this is true variegated, with short stretches of colour that don't stripe or pool, and I like it much more than most hand-painted yarn. I've been planning to use this for Coriolis ever since I first read the book, and I'm now neglecting the mini-cardi (which I've been knitting for less than a week) because I'm so eager to get to the increases :-)