I got diverted....

In finishing the Diverting Socks? (get it?)

The pattern I used for these is "Diverting Socks" from the book "Three Skeins or Less" (Aside to non-knitters: there are lots of books like that now, where the central feature is that they are projects requiring less yarn. Because yarn, good yarn, can be expensive...)



I used the Madelinetosh Sock in the color Holi Festival. Part of the reason I got "diverted" on finishing these socks - I started them back around April - is that the skein was unevenly dyed. With hand-dyed yarns, you have to expect variation between skeins (which is another reason why one-skein projects are so popular) and you have to do annoying tricks like alternating two rows from each skein if you are compulsive enough to care that the project be that uniform in color or patterning. But within a skein? You expect it to be consistent. But this skein of yarn had a really heavy pattern of "dots" in the first 75 yards or so, that then sort of petered out. It looked REALLY obvious on the needles, and I admit part of the reason I put them away was that I didn't like the way it looked and it bugged me that I'd have two socks that differed in color saturation.

Finally, I decided to finish them - I did them over break. I guess it's not as noticeable as I thought:



The leg of the top sock is the one with the heavier color density.

These socks are done with "alternating" cables - you start the pattern at a different row on each sock, so you get different "right" and "left" socks.

You can see how the cables "mirror."

If I were making these again, I'd use a solid color, or a heathered yarn. You have to be really careful with variegated yarn and things like cables, sometimes the yarn either fights with them or obscures them.