Resolving the STR Problem

After blogging a few days ago about the way Socks That Rock yarn was pooling, I got really helpful feedback from my wonderful readers. The pooling really bugged me, but it was pointed out that the pooling would be hidden under my pants.

I was also worried about the durability of the yarn, based on some Ravelry comments, but the comments reassured me that I wasn't wasting my time.

So, I decided to stick with the socks as they were. At some point it dawned on me that there would be a benefit to knitting Kai-Mei with a variegated yarn: I am a mistake-prone knitter, and this yarn would hide quite a few errors!

However, this is how the socks look today:

Before continuing with it, I gave the sock one last look -- and noticed that I made three errors in the k3 p3 ribbing! I told you I was error-prone. The errors were too big to be hidden by the colors.

I decided that was a sign -- and I frogged. I went back into Ravelry and looked at the 1,084 Kai-Mei socks posted and concluded that this pattern really looks best in a solid or semi-solid. It just so happened that I had a couple skeins of Spud & Chloe Fine, so I started all over.

Sometimes it takes a while to figure out the right yarn for a project.