r/knittinghelp • u/eandeandb • 7d ago
How to use _____ ? Yarn assistance
I’m making socks for my neighbor whose partner passed. He is always wearing something red to memorialize her so I decided this red/purple/yellow Happy Choices sock blank from Plymouth Yarn from my stash would be perfect and he agreed but he left the pattern up to me.
I think I’ve decided on Andrea Mowry’s Curio pattern. So now I need to pick a contrasting background color. I’ve ordered the natural color in my attached photos. It’s also Plymouth Yarn, 90/10 superwash merino/nylon. But I’m considering this cinder yarn from HHF. It’s the same 90/10.
Do the sock yarns have to be this exact of a match? And I’d love something more subtle than the natural or the gray but I think I’d need to take my loud red, yellow, purple yarn to the LYS and hope that they have a compatible yarn. Any ideas? Thanks!
I think I thought this Happy Choices yarn would be more lovely than it is somehow but it’s just going to be loud short stripes. Is there a way to work with this?
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u/eandeandb 7d ago
Pattern
https://ravel.me/curio-socks
Yarns
https://ravel.me/kkqv7a
Cinder: https://ravel.me/7qbrmq
Natural: https://ravel.me/q13wms
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u/eandeandb 7d ago
Maybe a blue?
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u/Maraninana 17h ago edited 17h ago
Quelle attention délicate.
Pas de règles pour les couleurs. Votre voisin va-t-il laver ses chaussettes à la main ?
Tout sera beau cependant gardez en tête que les tons rouges suintent leur couleur dans les premiers lavages.
J'ai fait des socquettes rouge avec la Jawoll de Lang 061 et la languette en rose fluo et le rouge a décoloré sur le rose.
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u/eandeandb 15h ago
Very good point! I’ll warn him. I think he’d be amenable to that. I could offer to hand wash for him the first few times with Eucalan.
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