I Love These Colors!
Having selected some of the beautiful Claudia's handpainted yarn, I decided to try it out on a really basic Nancy Bush Vintage socks pattern. It pleased me to see nice little perky stripes forming out of the wound ball of yarn, and I thought the comparison was interesting:
However, the lovely socks ended up TOO BIG! This is not the first time, and it occurred to me that anything using regular gauge sock yarn and casting on more than 60 or 65 is going to fit a larger foot just fine, but not my foot. So my mom has happy feet with these:
I was never able to wear Mom's shoes, but she can wear my socks!