Sock Making : Colours inspired by nature - 2 April 2024

I finished the cardigan but I'm still pondering what sort of buttons I should use; perhaps I will even print my own buttons !

In the meantime I started a pair of socks and you can see the first photo below:

I decided to start the second sock before finishing the first one so it's not so daunting when one is completely done and then there's a whole sock to knit. I would compare the process of knitting the second sock to the 'sleeve island' effect I wrote about here.

That's the main yarn I'm using, Li Hao or 利好 in Mandarin [lì hǎo] in pinyin. I feel I have to give my heartfelt thanks to Google for clarifying the spelling there. I then went to Google Translate and got the meaning good. I'm just hoping it is good enough to make a pair of socks.

The label has minimum information :

I'm guessing it is 100% acrylic. The yarn came in a bundle of yarn I got as a present. It seems to be the right thickness to make 4ply socks (ie 'thin' socks), though it is a bit thicker than the bright orange yarn, which is also a present but didn't have a label; it doesn't feel like real wool or from natural fibres either.

Incidentally, I got the inspiration for the colour combination from nature. I found this truly bright flower during my walk some time ago :

I used Google Lens to try and identify it; all I could tell is that it was a beautiful daffodil. It seems to be called Sealing Wax. I didn't find a lot of information about it but I did see it flowering in March. I guess it got totally obliterated by the snow and all the rain that's fallen recently.

I happened to see both colour yarns together and felt I needed to put them together - I didn't plan to combine them. I have barely 70g of yarn : 52 g of the yellow Lihao and about 18g of the orange. I could only 'afford' to make socks with that. In fact I may well have to make the heels and the toes in a different colour. I haven't decided yet. Actually making the socks nearly at the same time will allow me to determine how much I can spare per section.

Thank you for reading !