amimono note

Magic Stripes Socks

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• Pattern: Simple Sock in Three Sizes from Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles


• Yarn: Lion Brand's Magic Stripes


• Needles: Addi Turbo #0, 16" x 2

This was my first time knitting with Magic Stripes. I liked the yarn because I like thicker sock yarns. I think they are warmer, and they are faster to knit!

This was also my first time to try to match the stripes from self-patterned yarn on both socks. I failed miserably, but when I noticed there was a brown stripe missing at the beginning of the foot on one sock, I thought that matching the stripes was not meant to be this time and I was relieved...

(The text in the picture is Japanese. It says "A brown is missing")

I wonder if other Magic Stripes yarn is the same as this one. Is the brown always missing there in this colorway?

Non-knitting note

I had a good summer vacation, had fun and rested well. I've been thinking about this blog lately... I write fairly regularly on my Japanese knitting blog, but not here, and I want to change that.

I have always thought "I should be able to write English much better than this, because I've been in the states for xx years..." then I got stuck and couldn't write. Also, I often ask my English teacher to check my writings before I publish them. That makes updating slow too, since I only have one class a week.

I'm now thinking "Why not have some fun, even if I make some mistakes?" So, I'll write more often (hopefully) and maybe ask my teacher to check my writings later. I will make some corrections after publishing them, so people who kindly subscribed this blog to RSS readers might find it annoying... I apologize in advance.