Purple Socks

I finished this purple pair of socks.  It took about a year-and-a-half from start to finish these.  I started them on a trip to Idaho to see Janna and usually only worked on them when I was traveling, waiting in airports or on planes ...  or it was too cold to be upstairs working on other projects.  It's a good thing to do by the fire in the evenings.

 

The purples don't quite match.  I think I knitted 2 balls of wool yarn into 1 tube and then dyed it in the crockpot in the hopes that the color and patterning would match better than it did.  Instead, I think there was an inside and an outside to the knitted item, and the outside sucked up more color.  Hence the darker and lighter shades for each respective foot.  The yarn is Chic Sheep which I bought a few years ago ...  It makes a thicker sock -- more like a cabin or a boot sock.  Great for slippers, too. They are too thick to wear in my regular shoes.

I used the larger oval sock knitting looms from CinD Wood.  It has a few more pegs than the ones I was using previously (These are 1/4 inch with 60? pegs).  I thought I might tun out of yarn sooner because of the extra stitches with every round.  But it all worked out just fine.  They are a little roomier than previous socks, so I'm hoping they will snug up once I do the wet-finishing.