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Nov. 10th, 2006 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI will not undertake projects with insufficient yarn. I will not undertake projects with insufficient yarn. I will not undertake projects with insufficient yarn.
It's the HoHI. There's been some progress with them even though Socktoberfest is over and they aren't fucking done yet. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wootsauce can start chortling any moment now...)
When last we checked in, the HoHI looked like this:
Now, they look like this:
Including ribbing, I have about five inches of sock finished. This is five inches of the biggest it gets. As we progress, the sock will get a lot smaller... like six fewer inches around smaller. I do not, however, have enough yarn to complete the socks without ordering more. Now, fancy-ass sock yarn like I buy, besides costing an arm and a leg (The HoHI will wind up costing on the close order of eighty dollars, assuming they don't need more than eight balls of yarn total. The eyestrain purple socks cost about forty dollars. People don't hand-knit socks for purposes of economy. Economical socks are the six-pack of white tube socks at Wal-Mart. This is not at all about economy.), comes in something called a dye lot. Because it's artisanal or some such shit, they can't guarantee that the color Bold Red from dye lot 31 is going to be the same as the color Bold Red from dye lot 45.
To avoid having two shades of Bold Red in your project (and even a very slight difference is amazingly visible because human eyes are quite good at color), you're supposed to plan ahead and know how many skeins of yarn your project is going to fucking need before you ever get started. You're supposed to be able to do this even if it's your first-ever two-color project on an untried pattern with only a general idea of the gauge.
I've ordered some more fucking yarn. It probably won't match the existing yarn. I'm currently trying not to think about the whole dye lot thing.
It's the HoHI. There's been some progress with them even though Socktoberfest is over and they aren't fucking done yet. (
wootsauce can start chortling any moment now...)When last we checked in, the HoHI looked like this:
Now, they look like this:
Including ribbing, I have about five inches of sock finished. This is five inches of the biggest it gets. As we progress, the sock will get a lot smaller... like six fewer inches around smaller. I do not, however, have enough yarn to complete the socks without ordering more. Now, fancy-ass sock yarn like I buy, besides costing an arm and a leg (The HoHI will wind up costing on the close order of eighty dollars, assuming they don't need more than eight balls of yarn total. The eyestrain purple socks cost about forty dollars. People don't hand-knit socks for purposes of economy. Economical socks are the six-pack of white tube socks at Wal-Mart. This is not at all about economy.), comes in something called a dye lot. Because it's artisanal or some such shit, they can't guarantee that the color Bold Red from dye lot 31 is going to be the same as the color Bold Red from dye lot 45.
To avoid having two shades of Bold Red in your project (and even a very slight difference is amazingly visible because human eyes are quite good at color), you're supposed to plan ahead and know how many skeins of yarn your project is going to fucking need before you ever get started. You're supposed to be able to do this even if it's your first-ever two-color project on an untried pattern with only a general idea of the gauge.
I've ordered some more fucking yarn. It probably won't match the existing yarn. I'm currently trying not to think about the whole dye lot thing.
