Look here for how it ought to look. Bottom left corner. I am somewhat disappointed with this knitted out. It is nothing like the ball band shows it to be.
I am pleased with the fit of this sock. I have been experimenting with different widths and lengths and different types of heels. I have found that for me, the Sherman Heel,
my adaptation of it, is the easiest to knit and the most comfortable to wear. Most importantly it looks good and neat. No matter how easy this might have been, if it didn't look good, I wouldn't do it.
I do not decrease that much for the toe as mine are not crushed widthways so it seemed daft to decrease a lot.I decreased from 76 sts down to 56sts. I use 2mm needles for the ribbing and 2.25 for the rest. 22 rs of rib 70 st st rows till heel, further 99 rows after heel till cast off.
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I have to disagree. I don't care for the advertised Opal picture and wouldn't purchase that color from their collection based on that picture. I MUCH prefer the way it came out in your own socks.
Hi Colin, It really is quite a nice sock but I am surprised by the
difference between what it was "supposed" to look like and how it turned
out. I really do love the colors!
Hi Colin,
This is a very nice sock and the colors are lovely.
Do you have any idea why you got this different look? Wrong ball?
oh i like them. browns are my favorite colors. i love natural looking stuff. those socks are perfect. the heel is tight, no holes, and smooth looking.
i dont think it looks a thing like bee but i bought some bee from LL and i aint too crazy about that for sure it is yellow and black stripes. now maybe a pair of something like a jaywalker in it?
your brown striped socks are perfect in every way. and i dont decrease my toes pointy either. i like good square sock toes on my own socks
Beautiful socks! Colin - any chance you would share the instructions for
your version of the Sherman heel? It looks fabulous!
I have to agree with anonymous - I would not have purchased the yarn from the picture -but your sock is gorgeous.
It probably has to do with the size that was knit, it looks like your rounds came out exactly to the dye repeats -that's why you got stripes instead of pooling.
I can understand your disappointment in not getting the look you expected, but I think the sock you knitted is a far superior design (and of course, your wonderful technique helps).
Is it possible you knitted in a fashion different from what they intended? Or at a different tension? It looks much closer to the "Tiger" pictured third from the left, top row. Did your skein look like the Hummer or more like the Tiger?
Curious.
It may not be a hummel (which is not a bee, but a bumblebee), but I like your sock very much!
I luke it ;-)
I really like the look of the sock, but I have to laugh that it really does look NOTHING like what the picture shows it should look like, how strange!
I agree it looks nothing like the picture; but, having said that, I DO like the way your sock looks. I've never done a Sherman heel, it is easy?
I agree with another poster - I really liked your socks Colin.
Note that the site has a disclaimer. And I have seen this to be true with
different self striping yarns - 2 people can work on the same pattern, and yet
the socks will look different. I am sure that no two skeins are wound exactly
alike to start with. I also notice a different striping effect when I use the
leftover to make baby socks...they stripe in a totally different way, so I am
sure some of it has to do with size as someone else said.
Hi!! Your sock looks great!!
As far as how it doesn't look like their picture. I think when you consider how tight you knit and the change in stitch numbers it makes all sock yarns look different. Makes them unique to the knitter anyway. I have seen where some sock yarn sellers say that they don't guarantee that yours will look like theirs because of the knitting differences.
Have a great day!!
Mary
They do look vastly different from the pic on the Opal site, Colin, but still a nice job and a very attractive sock.
I bought original Tiger a number of years ago to make socks for my rock 'n roll buddy, and I was terribly disappointed in the way they knitted up. A lot like the yarn in your socks did, when I was expecting a more random tiger stripe effect. But Larry didn't know what they were supposed to look like, and he has enjoyed them. (He is still a Celtic Tiger even if the stripes aren't what I expected!) However, I have been in no rush to knit up the second ball for myself.
I like my socks to fit tightly, so I use size 1 needles and cast on 56 stitches. I think the standard Opal pattern says to use 72 stitches. I tried that once, and the socks are waaaay looser than I like, though they DO look almost exactly like the picture on the ball band.
I may go up to 64 stitches on my next socks, since lately my knitting has gotten a lot tighter, and I do not want to go up to size 2 needles. Now that I'm used to ones, twos feel like knitting with telephone poles!
I like your heel -- very similar in appearance to what I get when using the sock machine, sans the pesky little hole at the corners. I have NOT figured out how to resolve that particular issue on the machine.
Which brings me to machine knitting in general. I used to be a snob about it before I ever tried to use a machine. Now I know better -- machine knitting is an ART, and a DIFFICULT and CHALLENGING one! I'm still tying to get to the point where I can succesfully knit a straight piece of fabric on the flatbed.
On the sock machine, I've got tubes down and am working on heels with some success, but the RIBBER has me in fits.
Anyone who thinks machines are "easy" should sit down and try to use one, in my not so humble opinion.
Your work, whether by hand or by machine, or both together, amazes me. Keep on keepin' on and don't let the turkeys get you down!
Paula
I must say that when I first looked at your sock I didn't read about it nor did I look at what it was supposed to look like. I just thought that it was a really really nice sock. now after reading more of the posts about it I came back for a second look. I have put aside my feelings towards the nice looking sock and am saying "what the hell?" there is no way I would be happy with how this sock came out either compaired to how it was supposed to be.
the sock does look great and I do love the stripes but that is not the point. You bought the yarn to have a sock that looked like the picture on the label.
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