Well, it says in Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn that you should choose your pattern according to the degree of colour variation in your yarn, and to avoid pooling you should have special regard to the length of each colour section, so I had to unwind a length of the skein in order to do that, and then it made sense to cast on sixty stitches to see what would happen on the needles. Just being prudent.
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Just go for it!
Posted by: Dark Puss | 04 October 2009 at 01:11 PM
I love it,can't wait to see how it looks!
Karen I've lost your e mail, could you possibly e mail me as I wanted to ask you something, thanks Lynne x
dovegreyreader at gmail.com
Posted by: dovegreyreader | 04 October 2009 at 01:20 PM
I'm in the home stretch with a pair of socks called River Rapid, found on Ravelry. It's terrific for avoiding pooling with this sort of wool. Good luck!
Posted by: Darlene | 04 October 2009 at 02:00 PM
It is easily available from Cornflower's weblog! See rhs near top of page under Email Me
Posted by: Dark Puss | 04 October 2009 at 02:54 PM
Yes but when you click on it nothing happens unless you have Outlook I think Dark Puss:-) In the end I sorted it by right-clicking and 'copying e mail address' which miraculously appeared when I pasted it into my address bar. I'm a bit slow at these things!
Posted by: dovegreyreader | 04 October 2009 at 02:58 PM
It works perfectly with Thunderbird. Glad you got it anyway.
Posted by: Dark Puss | 04 October 2009 at 03:11 PM
Oh now look what you've done, I want Thunderbird now.
Posted by: dovegreyreader | 04 October 2009 at 03:19 PM
Very sensible indeed.
Posted by: Jennifer | 04 October 2009 at 05:28 PM
Great colours! Looking forward to seeing your socks :)
Posted by: Kristina | 04 October 2009 at 05:29 PM
Dear Darlene and Cornflower, for the absolute non-expert what is pooling please?
Posted by: Dark Puss | 04 October 2009 at 05:42 PM
as you knit the sock (a seamless tube which is effectively a spiral) the colours repeat, and as they wind round the spiral so they end up sitting next to or on top of one another. Depending on the number of stitches in the round, or the needle size, and the length of each colour section, 'pools' of colour can develop, i.e. instead of, say, smallish regular segments of red/blue/green/yellow, you can end up with a big pool or flash of one colour instead of a more even 'striped' distribution.
Does that make sense?
Posted by: Cornflower | 05 October 2009 at 09:46 PM
Absolutely and many thanks for taking the time to answer my naive question. P x
Posted by: Dark Puss | 06 October 2009 at 09:27 AM