Waves of Grain Sock

Grandmaster Socks
This is an interesting experiment. The black yarn (with little colored specks) is Regia, the red is leftovers from Joslyn's Line of Fire (see below). This first attempt at a dagger is done with cabled stitches, but it's intarsia, which requires that the yarn go back and forth, rather than round and round. So there's a seam.

• Lesson one: The waves in the wavy dagger aren't pronounced enough. At the top I think they want to wave by two stitches, not just one.
• Lesson two: It bunches terribly. I think my floats are loose enough, but the stitch being cabled behind can't really be loosened so well. I think the waving should happen with increases and decreases to the sides, rather than cabling.
• Lesson three: The seam is too bulky. I'm doing it by going to the end and then wrapping the neighboring stitch, which works okay for joining, but I think it needs a thinner seam.
• Lesson four: I like the way the cabled handle turned out. That part I'll keep.

Fat Seam

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