Fruju daybreak
KAL with karen (ballke) with my FruJu, pick another coordinating color for top.
KAL with karen (ballke) with my FruJu, pick another coordinating color for top.
Began | December 2, 2014 |
Finished | January 15, 2015 |
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Edited | January 27, 2015 |
Pattern URL | Daybreak by 132791 |
Size made | large |
with leftover aangel yarn. Cast on to knit on the yarn crawl at the end of February. Increased to 68 st instead of my previous standard of 72 since my feet are smaller. Used the heel from the FLKH but not the cardboard template. Knit till the socks were at my ankle bone and started…
fingering held double. cast on teen size to get roughly child size from gauge difference. blackberry: under 2 skeins whisker: 1 skein honeydew: almost a skein celestial: almost a skein
cast on at the beginning of #kdlbadventure in the PDX airport to #zk2015 and to see a dear friend. JMCO 14, increase to 38? increase again before the heel. backwards knitting for the heel. could use a little more ease in the top of the foot before the heel.
planning to make more than one. only used one skein, but part of another was used in related swatching.
starting weights: Moody Blues 116g, French Kiss 117g, Stellar 104g.
use vesper, but get smaller needles since it’s 100% merino, no nylon. reinforcing center of bottom of the sole with slip stitch ala eye of partridge. with super tight gauge, came up with a larger stitch count than the large size to get the right diameter for my feet. this slowed me down but will…