I tried casting on for a mindless project to keep me going when I wasn't working on the stole and for when I was too lazy to finish the toes on the neglected socks. Unfortunately this sock yarn is apparently EVIL!!!
Take a look at how awful it looks:
They are pooling like mad in a very undesirable way. I have ripped back and tried all sorts of different needle sizes and stitch number combinations. But it still looks like ass. Hrmph. This yarn needs to go sit in a corner for a while until it can learn to behave. Except I'm more afraid that I'll forget about it's misbehavior and pick it up a year from now, only to try again and again and again and end in frustration. I know the real solution is probably to move up to huge needles and increase the stitch count and do a lot of texture, but this was supposed to be MINDLESS. The type of mindless where I wasn't even wanting to do fricking toe decreases. Argh.
It looked so nice in the skein, and look how much I have:
Ever get excited about some yarn, only to find out it just won't behave? Well at least I have no less than a metric tonne of other sock yarns to play around with. But ever notice how the good stuff stays in the stash instead of getting used up because you're waiting for the perfect idea for it?
I know what you mean. When I want "mindless" I mean it! I don't even want to count rows! Well, if it helps, I think the colors are very pretty!
Posted by: Laura at May 2, 2005 9:47 AMSometimes you can rescue an inopportune pooler by using two skeins, each starting in a different spot. If you alternate one round of each, you'll break up the pooling.
Another idea is to strand a yarn like this with a solid in a contrasting (or matching) color. I do a 2 stitch by 2 row dice check, or something like this:
http://string-or-nothing.blog-city.com/read/564013.htm
Even though the stuff pools (which you can see in the photo above) - the pattern is what you see, not the pooling.
I don't know if these ideas are suitable for your project, or if you feel like they'd be too much work. In any case, sympathies! Been there. Have the scars... -K.
Posted by: kbsalazar at May 2, 2005 6:44 PM