You know that feeling you get sometimes with first socks as you approach the toe, that maybe you won't have enough yarn? I regarded the resurrected and still incomplete Jaywalker and the yarn remaining, weighed them to check my suspicions, and found that yes, they weighed the same. No expletives, just resignation. So I put the sock on a holding yarn, and cast on for the second sock so at least they'll match. Contrast toes? These will have contrast feet, yarn to be determined. I understand the whole episode as merely another obstacle in my personal Jaywalker odyssey. I seem to remember that the original Socks that Rock skeins didn't have quite enough yarn for a pair of socks, conceived as they may have been for their funky stranded sock patterns. I have long since lost the yarn band, but I think there are only 325 yards in this skein, a colour called Queen of the Nile.
There's something unsettling about how resistant to completion these particular socks have been: stitches jumping ship or crossing "panel" borders in the pattern, first-sock getting itself lost for about a year, and now, lacking sufficient yarn. Scofflaws they are. Petty criminals of the knitting bag. Insolent and unruly. I am all the more determined to get them off the needles they've been hogging for almost two years now, and so I am digging in to get them done as Kay says, Wendy style. Non-stop, until they are done. I'll show them I will.
I think whole contrasting feet would be cool. You are a posting machine these days my dear...its nice to read you regularly!
Posted by: PumpkinMama | July 26, 2007 at 10:24 AM
contrasting feet! fun :)
Posted by: jess | July 26, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Or make mittens....
Posted by: Joan | July 26, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Yeah, contrasting feet. How to decide what color? Black seems severe. Matching seems unlikely.
Posted by: Laurie | July 26, 2007 at 12:50 PM
I should hope so. The colors are too pretty to waste, especially after all that work. If it were me I would knit the feet in stripes of solid colors that kindasorta match the colorway.
I like longish socks too, which is why I've never bought any STR.
Posted by: Lucia | July 26, 2007 at 01:17 PM
Lovely colors. Thanks for the post, it will help me in the future when I have limited yarn.
Posted by: Peggy | July 26, 2007 at 01:23 PM
Those socks need a big slap into compliance. Knit on!!
Posted by: Kathy | July 26, 2007 at 01:42 PM
Press on. Don't let the sock win!
Posted by: Tonia | July 26, 2007 at 04:03 PM
I know the feeling only too well. I'm doing Jaywalkers in STR and something about the yarn and size 1 needles. They just seem kind of bulky and not stretchy enough. I've progressed to about the same point as you, and determined I will be frogging tonight. Thenaks for the inspiration. I think the former J's will now become a pair of pedicure socks. Hey, cone to think of it, how about "Pedicure" Jaywalkers!
Posted by: Nancyjane | July 26, 2007 at 04:13 PM
I think you're right that the old put-up of STR has about 325 yds. Those Jaywalkers are not acting right, but it sounds like you will whip them into shape. The contrast "feet" comment cracks me up.
Posted by: Wanda | July 26, 2007 at 06:59 PM
It is a beautiful colorway - too bad about being short yarn. I think contrasting feet will be fun. Something wild maybe?? I have big (size 10) feet, and ran into this problem with Regia. I had made the legs a bit long and had I known I would be short yarn, I would've shortened the legs up a bit. As it was, I purchased a 3rd skein of yarn (after a lengthy hunt for the colorway) and now have a major portion of it left. What kind of scale do you use to weigh your yarn? You will persevere with this go-round. You are determined. The socks are weak now from sitting in the dark so long. ; ) Karen
Posted by: Karen in Moorhead | July 27, 2007 at 01:26 AM
You're being more tenatious than I was with my Jaywalkers. I ended up getting frustrated and throwing them in the trash.
Posted by: Ruth | July 27, 2007 at 07:01 AM
I say show those suckers! Rip 'em. Rip 'em out of existence and use that yarn for something else. That'll teach them to be so difficult. Yah.
Posted by: Marcy | July 27, 2007 at 08:57 AM
I know just what you mean... I have had the worst luck with this pattern, between running out of yarn, not being able to get the sock over my heel, etc. And yet some people knit pair after perfect-fitting pair, effortlessly.
I think some people are Jaywalker People and some aren't, and those of us who aren't can bash our heads against the wall as much as we like, but it still won't make us Jaywalker People.
Posted by: Beth S. | July 27, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Repeat after me (using various voices: stern, friendly (or not), querulous, stern (again), confrontational, just plain nasty and so forth).
"Who is in CHARGE here?"
Needle or finger waggling optional.
Posted by: Earin | July 27, 2007 at 01:33 PM
What about "Chapman Springs"? That colourway looks similar.
Posted by: Nicole | July 27, 2007 at 02:58 PM
Contrasting feet are a-okay in my book! Can't wait until they're done!
Posted by: Cathy | July 27, 2007 at 04:42 PM
Loving the pirate argyles! For meeeeeeeeee! Please share with me where you bought the pattern? Great knitting you've done!
Posted by: Linda | July 31, 2007 at 02:40 PM