A trip to the frog pond
Well, I had been knitting diligently on my Baudelaires, had hit gauge and everything, but the fabric was too loose - I was part way up the leg knitting away, hoping for the best thinking perhaps I might be able to shrink them to size....but the yarn of course is superwash, and the thought of throwing the socks in the washing machine in an attempt to felt them (even though the yarn is superwash) was too daunting. I rechecked my gauge, and things seemed fine, though as I mention, the knitted fabric has quite a bit of give to it - so much give that the sock was a bit loose on me, and then I put it on my husband's foot and it fit him fairly well, but still a little baggy in places. I started tinking back, and after a half hour of that, I tried doing a controlled rip back...and well, the socks are now restarted on smaller needles. *sigh*
posted by Stephanie @ 6:52 AM
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3 Comments:
Ack! That's frustrating. Isn't it weird how sometimes everything seems fine, but for no reason at all, it just doesn't work out right? There's gotta be a metaphor for life in there somewhere!
I don't know what the metaphor that emma mentions would be, but it sure sounds like my life sometimes! :-) I've heard before though of people having this trouble with superwash. I don't think I've ever used it before myself, but didn't the Yarn Harlot have a story in one of her books about a disaster sweater made of superwash that kept getting bigger and bigger? Isn't it something about the superwash treatment making the yarn more slippery and that causing it to grow? I know that many naturally slippery yarns, like mercerized cotton or microfiber certainly do grow quite a bit after knitting....
lol - I have no idea, I knit a pair of superwash green socks out of my own handdyed stuff and that worked out fine!
All I know is it sure was frustrating to be essentially in the home stretch (the leg on a toe up sock) only to discover they needed to be frogged.
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