well. that's better...

Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against pooling - I feel it is going to happen if you use handpainted yarns, and I just happen to adore hand painted yarns.

But this was not good:

This was beyond just pooling. This was a blob of tan on one side of a sock that was striping very nicely in black and white everywhere else. It looked like someone dropped a blob of bleach in one area. And it wasn't moving. It was just staying as a big blob. You couldn't even really call this pooling - it was just blobbing. (Do you get the whole blob thing? It was really blobby.)

So I went down a needle size, and I reduced the stitch count back to my regular count (I had increased by a few stitches to accommodate the fibre blend - less wool = less stretch).

What a difference a small change makes:

Much better. Amazing what such a small change can do...

Even Hubby commented - they are his socks, and he surprisingly takes a interest in their construction - actually I think he was just staking his claim, as two other people showed just a little more interest in them than he was comfortable with. (Men can flirt with me all day long, but no one had better show too much interest in his socks-in-progress, lest I give them away).

A note on the Tofutsies yarn - I love it. It's a touch splitty, and the jury is out on how well it wears, but it has a really nice hand and is fun to knit.

Next week - more completed projects! Really! It's exciting stuff, I know...