March 31, 2011

Where are they now? - Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 4


"Whatever happened to your .... ? Write about the fate of a past knitting project."

My Regia socks. These were the first pair of socks I made for myself. The yarn stretched a lot - the socks were huge! I wore them a couple times anyway.

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Then I had an idea! I asked my boyfriend to try them on. They fit him perfectly. So perfectly, that I'm knitting him another pair, exactly like this one. In a different color of course!

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"Τι έγινε το ... ; Γράψτε για την τύχη ενός παλιού πλεκτού."

Οι κάλτσες μου πλεγμένες με νήμα Regia. Ήταν οι πρώτες κάλτσες που έπλεξα για μένα. Το νήμα άνοιξε πολύ - οι κάλτσες ήταν τεράστιες! Τις φόρεσα μερικές φορές παρόλο που μου ήταν μεγάλες.

Μετά μου ήρθε μια ιδέα! Είπα στο φίλο μου να τις δοκιμάσει. Του κάνουν! Και μάλιστα, το μέγεθος είναι τόσο καλό, που του πλέκω τώρα ακόμα ένα ζευγάρι, ακριβώς σαν αυτό. Σε άλλο χρώμα φυσικά!

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He wears these socks in the house and they look so cute on him!

The yarn is great, I wash these socks in the machine in a little bag and they still look wonderful. I learned though that not all yarns are the same, this one stretches a lot, so use smaller needles or cast on less stitches. The good news is that the other socks I knit with this yarn are the perfect size and I wore them a lot this winter!

The original post for these socks is here and I wrote all about the yarn (Regia Design Line Kaffe Fassett) in my Celebration Socks post and my Amazon Stripes post.

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Φοράει τις κάλτσες μέσα στο σπίτι και του πάνε πάρα πολύ!

Το νήμα είναι πολύ ωραίο, βάζω τις κάλτσες στο πλυντήριο σε μια θήκη και δείχνουν ακόμα υπέροχες. Έμαθα όμως ότι δεν είναι όλα τα νήματα ίδια, το συγκεκριμένο ανοίγει πάρα πολύ, οπότε χρησιμοποιήστε μικρότερες βελόνες ή ρίξτε λιγότερους πόντους. Τα καλά νέα είναι ότι οι άλλες κάλτσες που έπλεξα με αυτό το νήμα είναι το τέλειο μέγεθος και τις φόρεσα πολύ αυτό το χειμώνα!

Η ανάρτηση που είχα κάνει για αυτές τις κάλτσες είναι εδώ και μετά έγραψα για αυτό το νήμα στην ανάρτηση για τις κάλτσες Celebration και για τις κάλτσες Amazon Stripes.

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My Celebration socks - smaller needles and less stitches; they fit!

Οι κάλτσες Celebration - μικρότερες βελόνες και λιγότεροι πόντοι. Μου κάνουν!


This event is so much fun! A big thank you to Eskimimi for organizing it! I'm discovering so many new blogs and reading so many interesting posts by talented knitters all over the world! To see all the posts from a specific day, you can Google the unique code that appears in the posts. Today's code is 2KCBWDAY4.

Αυτή η εβδομάδα είναι πολύ ωραία! Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στην Eskimimi που τα οργάνωσε όλα! Ανακαλύπτω συνέχεια καινούρια blog και διαβάζω ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα από πλέκτριες σε όλο τον κόσμο! Για να δείτε τις αναρτήσεις από μια συγκεκριμένη μέρα, μπορείτε να κάνετε μια αναζήτηση στο Google με τον κωδικό που εμφανίζεται στις αναρτήσεις. Ο κωδικός για σήμερα είναι 2KCBWDAY4.

14 comments:

  1. Ha ha, love your boyfriend's "dainty" pose to show off the socks. They look very cosy indeed.

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  2. You just can't go wrong with Kaffe Fasset! I'm impressed that boyfriend will wear sox with pink!

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  3. He only wears them in the house though! The pair I'm knitting for him now has gray, navy blue, dark green... :)

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  4. How funny! My first Regia Socks are also a bit too big for me. But I'm too selfish to give them to my husband and wear them nevertheless. ;)
    Like the colorways you choosed!

    BTW: For many centuries pink, being a diluted red, was considered as manly color and blue was used for girls and women. That changed not until the 1920ies.

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  5. gluecksfisch: How interesting! I didn't know that about the colors!

    I still wear the socks sometimes, although they really are too big! :D

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  6. Pink is the new navy blue for men :P And I really think I should have tried a bit harder to get a proper pirouette!

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  7. I love how your boyfriend is modeling the socks. He seems like he's a ton of fun to be around. They did turn out super cute though. Glad the socks you made for yourself the second time turned out XD

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  8. LOL they are such pretty socks ! :-)

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  9. He seems like such a good sport! :D My boyfriend would never wear socks with that much pink in them, regardless of what I tell him about pink's history.

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  10. Great socks. LOL'd at your man modeling them.

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  11. absolutely adorable story! your boyfriend is totally rocking the pink socks. my first pair of socks was too small (i'm a tight knitter), so they were passed on to my mom. she was pretty happy about my mistake. :)

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  12. I love that your BF is secure enough in his manliness to wear those colors!

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