Perception

So I learned two interesting things in my little not-experiment:
(1) Y'all are experienced knitters, who don't let a little thing like scale fool you; and
(2) I need to ask my questions better.

I wanted to know how thick other knitters judged the yarn to be, from the picture alone. When I looked at the original picture, I was struck by how similar to regular sock yarn it seemed; it even has a "halo" when viewed up close. (I don't think the click-to-embiggen picture is quite that close.) I was wondering if others would also be "fooled," or if it tricked me only because I don't have enough experience.

It's a sock for the Not-So-Little-One: here's a shot with a nickle for scale:

The yarn is some coarse weaving/very fine knitting cotton from Webs that I showed apparently never admitted to the blog before; the needles are 000.

Comments

[cyn]

yowza! 000s? Dang. I think it depends on how dense you like your socks to be? I hear tell that the denser, the better (for wear).

[terby]

Wow! Tiny needles! I like the color. It doesn't look that different from some of the thinner sock yarns. I don't think I use anything larger than a size 1 very often, and I like dense socks. I'm guessing your yarn is a little thinner than Trekking, then? (Oh - I owe you some yarn, if I can ever find your address.)

[Laura]

Without even studying the photo or having much experience with socks, I guessed that it was a small sock. Why? Because if it were a regular adult-sized sock you would have never asked us to guess what size it was! (and because I highly doubt that you would be making a gigantic sock unless you knew someone like Yao Ming)