Yes... I realize I just completed a pair of Diagonal Lace Socks... I just enjoyed them so much that when I couldn't come up with an idea for this yarn (Fundy Footsee by Done Roving) I decided that I should just pick something and start! So since this pattern was fresh in my mind already... out these came!
I had tried a couple of patterns out with this yarn, but it seemed like the "stripes" kept being too prominent and showing up like a blue lightning streak across whatever pattern I chose.
My solution to this problem? Stop worrying about it and just knit. I decided that since the striping was just not going away, and I didn't feel like knitting plain stockinette at the time, I just needed to bite the bullet and persevere regardless of annoying blue stripes!
I always enjoy seeing the pooling/flashing socks that other people make! It never bothers me that their socks get blotches of color here and there, or if the yarn shows up in obvious bands. For some reason I am just more critical of my own knitting than of other peoples... who knew I was a control freak? sheesh... this probably wasn't the first clue either!
I actually really like the end result of these socks, though I was starting to second guess myself when I got up to the first heel and saw that there was going to be a big blue blotch on one side of the gusset and a big fuschia blotch on the other side... I decided to just go with it. Surprisingly the second sock made the exact same blotch pattern. I must have been knitting both socks with the exact same gauge/tension?
I'll have to remember this experiment in self restraint (let the colors be... let the colors be...) next time I have a skein of unruly pooling sock yarn. The colors are complimentary, they look good together... they will pool and flash and stripe as they want and all will be right and good in the universe!
Diagonal Lace socks by Wendy Johnston... knit in Fundy Footsee by Done Roving... purchased last summer in Maine