Comment on The first knitted socks I ever truly loved <3

• ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How bad do your hands hurt after knitting a pair? Are you lucky enough it doesn’t bother you? Would take me a until next Christmas to knit one pair of socks!!

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  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks! Honestly, I don’t have those kinds of issues with my hands (yet), had some wrist trouble when I was younger but I find that switching between different projects and even different crafts is enough variation in movement that nothing hurts. Trying to knit for too long a stretch would obviously not go well, but I have plenty other things to be making!

    Sometimes I’ll knit a pair and it really does take an entire year because I’ll just pick them up occasionally and do a round or two. Other times I can blast through a pair in a couple weeks. Depends how I’m feeling really :D

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• registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve got some cotton+bamboo regular socks, they’re like 5% rougher than regular socks. How rough is the bamboo compared to wool?

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  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds more likely to be the cotton, tbh. Bamboo yarn is generally very soft and kind of slippery, but some cottons can feel quite rough (even though it’s not itchy like a lot of wool). Of course, you could just have really weird bamboo :D

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