Olympic Training

[omly]

My original plan was to knit both socks simultaneously toe up from opposite ends of the ball so I could basically go until I got to the center of the yarn. Suddenly while lying in bed I realized that if I did this method that the patterns would be going different directions (as in this picture of someone else's socks). Damn you self patterning yarn!

Solution: Assuming a constant linear density (you know this is going badly when it starts like this) I pulled out the center of the ball (which includes the inner end) and used a scale to get 2 roughly equal weight sections. The whole ball weighed 105.4g which amused me from a QA perspective since in order to claim to be 100g they needed most balls to fall over that part of the confidence interval. I just hadn't thought about it previously.

Anyways so I now have 2 sections of yarn, one which weighs slightly more so they can start at the same point in the pattern. Then I have to take the inner section, which at this point looks like a yarn monster's guts and wind it into a ball careful to wind it so that the original yarn end is in the center so as not to lose the correct direction of the yarn pattern.

Whew! Now on to the gauge square.

Comments

[motive-nuance.livejournal.com]

*laughs and hugs you*

[omly.livejournal.com]

:) You are one of the few that would find that endearing.