Yarn rant

[notyourwendy]

Screw you, Patons Yarns, and your utter inability to make the color or strand wrapping within your dye lots even remotely similar from ball to ball. 

This is the third sock project I've done with Patons Yarns where the two socks are clearly not similar.   Two were out of the Kroy line and while the dye lots may have been good, I couldn't tell because the strand wrapping was so off that it looks like I didn't even buy two of the same colorway, much less two of the same dye lot.  The current project is from the Silk & Bamboo yarn it what would be a lovely plum color, if the dye lot could decide on which shade of plum it would like to be.  I'm willing to bet my next paycheck that the nice spring green color I bought at the same time as the plum is going to have a similar issue.  I'd return it, but I tossed the receipts ages ago and have re-balled the yarn. 

I'd just scrap the current project, but I'm on vacation and have no other yarn with me (oh woe!) so I may as well finish knitting up this mess and, I don't know, make a name for myself as the chick with the mismatched socks, or something.

As an aside to the ranting, can anyone explain or show me some general math on how to work out a gusset heel on toe-up socks?   I can see there's some repeatable ratio from foot stitches to adding gusset stitches, to picking up for the heel, to leg stitches, but I can't work it out on my own.

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[notyourwendy]

I'm working out of her Socks From The Toe Up book and I love it to death. I will poke at her site and see if I can work out something I can comprehend (more my lack of math comprehension than her inability to explain it).

[synecdochic]

That's the book I use too, yeah :)