Foot Loose
This is Foot Loose, from the Luxury Collection by Diamond Yarns is colour #11
It is 90% Fine Merino, superwash, and 10% Nylon. 175m/50g, 30 stitches and 42 rows/10 cm on 2.75 mm needles. Recommended to machine wash on gentle and dry flat.
Diamond Yarns is a major Canadian distributor of fine yarns from around the world – check the yarn ads in Vogue Knitting and find that about half of them have the same Canadian phone number – that would be Diamond. But they also produce some of their own lines, and Foot Loose is one of them.
What caught my attention with the Foot Loose series is the use of exciting colours, but in more of a matte finish – giving a colorful yet quiet effect.
On the sock machine I found the yarn to knit well at my ‘usual 4 ply tension’. This was a bit of a surprise to me, as with colours this deep I usually have to slack off a quarter turn.
This pair is size Medium, knit with the 54 cylinder on the Legare 400:
The colour behaves quite regularly.
This second pair is size Large, knit with the 72 cylinder on the Verdun 47:
You can see that the colours pool in this setup. Also, I didn’t have quite enough yarn in two 50g balls for the Large pair … but had well enough left over from the Medium pair.
I like the pooling of the sock on the left. The sock on the right can’t make up its mind if it wants to pool or not. (What’s the opposite of pool?)
This is a nice yarn to work with. It is less lustrous than many merinos, but the matte finish isn’t less soft, that I can tell. I knit a bag of it and don’t recall hitting any knots.
I have, um, a few more bags, and I think what I’ll do with the sizes knit on the 72 cylinder is knit a bunch of the same size, then pair them as looks best – this is often a good route with painted yarns that want to pool.