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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That looks great! Love how the colors are fading into each other.

TAAT toe up is my favorite method for socks! I noticed you have two separate balls - how do you normally split them? Do you ever run out of one before the other? I have an irrational fear of cutting the ball to the wrong size and not knowing what to do after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine too! I feel like it's the best way to avoid wasting yarn. As for your question, if I'm starting with a skein/anything hard to pull from, I make it into one ball. Then I borrow my husband's kitchen scale, tare it with a yarn bowl, and weigh the ball of yarn in grams. Leaving the ball on the scale, I hand roll a ball from the end until the number on the scale is half of the original number. I even swap the balls to make sure they weigh the same. Then I cut the yarn between the balls and just hope my gauge stays consistent enough to use up the yarn at the same rate!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Kitchen scale is how I did it, too. I'm doing my first pair like this and they are also taking ages. Feels like, anyway!

They look excellent. I really like the smooth rounding of the toes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your process! I'll definitely have to try it at some point, I've just been winding my skeins into a cake and using both ends, but it's fiddley to make sure nothing gets tangled.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also do it with a kitchen scale. I weigh the whole ball and then wind two smaller ones based on that weight so I have two (almost) identical ones in weight. I also try to keep an eye on where the colors change so I start both balls with the same colour change if it is self striping.