March Socks: Knitpicks Chroma Fingering

I'm finished the rainbow socks! (March Socks)

Just to recap I used Knitpicks Chroma Fingering Sock Yarn in the Prism colourway. It's a single of a 70/30 Wool/Nylon blend in a plain slip stitch heel, toe up 2 at a time pattern, 1x1 rib cuff and a russian bind off. It fluctuates a tad, but works up great overall. Bit fuzzy. I did have some issues when it came to colour consistency. I had to break and piece together the yarn because there was a knot where they tied blue to orange, and missed all the colour changes in between. Knitpicks customer service was awesome when I called though and they sent me an entirely new ball! I may use it for weaving since I was able to MacGuyver the colour changes back together. Overall it's lovely soft and the colours were great, until the whole knot incident. But I can't even fault them for that because they sent me another ball immediately. I called and said "Um I think I have a flaw in my yarn?" and without skipping a beat the lady offered me a free ball. Customer service seems to be an out dated concept lately, but at Knitpicks they really excel at it. I would never want to take advantage of it though.

Pictures!

Here they are taking a bath..

Almost dry! Hopefully they'll be in the mail tomorrow for their new home in Canada.

I have some more picture to show closer up and how they're a bit fuzzy. Chroma is a new yarn on the market so I know a few people will be interested in seeing how it works up.

Click the pictures to make them larger. I think you get a good idea of the fuzzy though. And the cuff bindoff! I really love using russian bind off to create a nice stretchy edge. When on you don't get the flare that shows in the socks while flat. Toe up bind offs need to be extra stretchy so you can get the socks over your foot. I didn't realise this when I finished my first ever toe up sock and let me tell you, undoing a bind off? Sucks.

Now I'm hoping to finish my weaving sampler tonight! I'm practicing keeping my beating light and even because I've been beating (is that the right term?) my rows way too tight and making a super tight weave that eats yarn like crazy. I'll think gentle thoughts as I finish up my current warp tonight and pick a handspun to warp on for my next project.