Black Dog

Well, one……………flat. We received a kit on Thursday at the shop, that included one Flat Feet Flat from Conjoined Creations

as well as a set of dpns and a pattern book

that has a dozen different patterns that can be made with a single flat. A quick perusal through the book and I declare it QUITE useful (I’d made at least half of the patterns in here!). Not only do they show you a completed sock on a foot, but you also get a pattern close up to show you the stitch design

For now, however, I’m going to work a simple stockinette sock so as to show off the yarn best. Here’s a close up of half of the flat that’s being turned into a single sock

I think their dyeing is fun and quite different from anything I’ve ever seen before, and there’s almost no way to guess how it will knit up, which leads to fun during the knitting (and a little bit of motivation, as you wanna keep knitting into the next pattern design to see how it works up). Here’s my sock, laid out with the flat, just a few minutes ago

you can see that I’ve worked off the start and I’m into the first set of rings. There’s none of the black/green in the cuff (it was before the ring started), so the leg shows some of the additional colors introduced

My initial reaction to the project was that I wouldn’t like the crimp that’s in the yarn from being knitted up into a flat. My actual experience working with the yarn is that there’s NO PROBLEM with the crimp, as tensioning the yarn a little bit removes crimp, and I tension my yarn while I knit….therefore, no crimp. YES!

While the actual fabric doesn’t look perfect, the instructions specifically say to hand wash your sock the first time (it’s a machine-washable product) only and then block the sock. BLOCKING REMOVES THE IRREGULAR LOOK TO YOUR STITCHES. The fabric is nice and soft in my knitted sock, so I’m really looking forward to getting this one further along, despite having started three new sweaters this week (yes, you’ll see them in my next blog post) as well as a different sock, too! Startitis has struck–in a BIG way.

Back soon with more, but for now it’s off to the shop to get some paperwork completed and get things ready for the weekend visit with Beth Brown-Reinsel, who’s conducting classes for us this weekend. We LOVE Beth and always enjoy having her here.

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