Alive & Knitting

I finished these a few weeks ago, but forgot to show you. These are knit from a Crazy Zauberball – “crazy” means that it’s the marled sock yarn. Both Crazy Zauberball and Zauberball have long slow gradations of colour.

Here’s what mine looked like when I bought it:

And here are my finished socks:

The LYSO warned me that I wouldn’t be able to match the socks – she knows how matchy matchy I am! – and they don’t match. In fact, I think the first repeat is still to come in the partial ball leftover from my socks, so it wasn’t even possible to make them match. All the same, they do look like they belong together. I like that the light bands on the feet are in roughly the same place and that they both have dark toes.

The colours in this yarn are pretty and it was nice to knit. It’s thinner than I’d realized though – I wish I’d knit my socks on 2.25mm or even 2.0mm needles (instead of 2.5mm) as they seem rather well-ventilated. I washed them before taking this shot and the yarn fuzzed up a bit but didn’t full or shrink. It’s very soft, soft enough to use for baby garments, and it’ll be interesting to see how it wears.

Have you knit any interesting socks yet? Have you tried the Zauberball? What do you think of it?