• That looks great! Love how the colors are fading into each other.

    TAAT toe up is my favorite method for socks! I noticed you have two separate balls - how do you normally split them? Do you ever run out of one before the other? I have an irrational fear of cutting the ball to the wrong size and not knowing what to do after.

    • Mine too! I feel like it’s the best way to avoid wasting yarn. As for your question, if I’m starting with a skein/anything hard to pull from, I make it into one ball. Then I borrow my husband’s kitchen scale, tare it with a yarn bowl, and weigh the ball of yarn in grams. Leaving the ball on the scale, I hand roll a ball from the end until the number on the scale is half of the original number. I even swap the balls to make sure they weigh the same. Then I cut the yarn between the balls and just hope my gauge stays consistent enough to use up the yarn at the same rate!

      •  Birdie   ( @Birdie@lemmy.one ) 
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        Kitchen scale is how I did it, too. I’m doing my first pair like this and they are also taking ages. Feels like, anyway!

        They look excellent. I really like the smooth rounding of the toes.

      • Thanks for sharing your process! I’ll definitely have to try it at some point, I’ve just been winding my skeins into a cake and using both ends, but it’s fiddley to make sure nothing gets tangled.

        • Happy to share, it’s worked for me for two pairs (plus this one) so far! I’m impressed that you can do that. I once tried to do TAAT sleeves off both ends of a skein and it was…kind of a tangled disaster. I ended up needing to get a second one and switch one sleeve to it. I guess working from a cake would probably help, but still seems fiddly for me.