When I buy sock yarn in the store, there are many varieties. My last purchase was of some variegated sock yarn, bought in red, green and blue hues. So I was interested in seeing how the socks turned out.
In the past when I have bought variegated yarn, it would usually just change in color scattered through the socks, with no particular pattern. Here are some examples of typical sock yarn in Norway.
A few years ago I bought a pattern and the correct yarn in Canada. It was fun to see how the pattern in the girl’s dress came out, as I knit. I did not have to change colors at all, and the pattern came out as I knit the variegated yarn. I don’t have a picture of the dress itself which was given away, but here’s the picture in the pattern book.
As I knit these last two pairs of socks, lo and behold, stripes came out as I knit, making very interesting socks. I enjoyed the knitting so much, easy to knit, but varying pattern as I went, that I bought more yarn. I will continue knitting socks like these for a while.
