Pattern: Basic sock pattern, used millions of times
Yarn: Crystal Palace Yarns Mini Mochi, 2 x 50g in colour: Neptune Rainbow
Needles: 2.25mm dpns

Christmas knitting all done. I can’t really feel smug when there wasn’t actually that much to do compared to previous years, but during the times when I’d pick up the sock to only have to put in down a few stitches later I did wonder if I’d ever get them done.

There’s nothing to say about the “pattern”, so I’ll just mention the yarn. As I said previously, it’s slightly splitty and a bit hairy, but the colours are gorgeous. It washes nicely with no colour run and they’ve blocked really well.

The colour sequence on the foot of the sock at the top of the photo went completely loopy, though. There’s a huge wodge of turquoise for half of the foot, then it settles down and then a chunk of dark blue to the toe. And this was without there being knots in the yarn, which of course can make colour runs go screwy. If it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t have the time to fiddle, I’d have frogged the foot, cut and rejoined the yarn. But on the positive side, it’ll be hidden by shoes for much of the time.

I’ve never had that happen with any commercial sock yarn before and it’s pretty disappointing, but perhaps it was bound to happen just because I *had* always had such good experiences. Will be sticking to Trekking and Opal from now on, though, for my manly sock requirements. If Opal would make another thickly striped yarn like the “Feelings” range a couple of years ago, that would be just perfect, thankyouverymuch.

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