Ta Da!

Finished the socks yesterday, posted to Ravelry, then vegged out on the couch instead of posting here. Bad knitter; no cookie. An overhead view: After I decided that Araucania Multy looks best in stockinette (you can see examples in my Swatches tab), I came up with this pattern to show off the yarn colors, but [...]

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Sock 2, Days 4 & 5

After a false start, the heel is done: This is the “non-stop heel” that Katherine Misegades adapted from a gansey sweater underarm. It took longer than I anticipated, because I was an idiot and forgot that I should still be working in the round as I made the heel ‘flap’. Got halfway through and had [...]

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Sock 2, Day 3

Day 2 ended up being a wash. I was “being good” by cleaning the house, grocery shopping, and cooking before I sat down to knit. Which resulted in giving myself toe cramps that made it impossible to sit down at all, much less sit down and knit. Lesson learned – do the knitting first! So [...]

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Sock 2, Day 1

I decided to do a gradual reveal of the windowpane pattern, partly to keep myself on track getting the second one finished by next Monday. So this is yesterday’s progress… all 8 bobbins of color B are attached: This represents 3-4 hrs of knitting (I lost track of how many things I watched off the [...]

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Sock is done!

Just finished Kitchenering the toe of my first windowpane sock. Got it right the first time, even though I don’t need to Kitchener very often! 7.5 days to make its fraternal twin while resisting the urge to cast on a Queen Silvia shawl.

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I can haz heel!

I forgot that I meant to try a no-pickup gusset. Thinking I may do that on the second sock and let them be different (and also, feel which one is better on the foot, since the bias lines make fit a bit more challenging in the same way the Coriolis is). Plus I can’t bear [...]

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Another week, another sock

Saturday I finished the Circle Socks: I don’t know if it was good luck or good manufacturing, but my two skeins of Felici were almost identical in patterning. This pleases me: The very last cast-off row on the right sock is in tan, but you can barely tell. I like that I got to use [...]

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Spoiled for choices

I got my Windowpane Sock posted to the July sockdown thread in time! Here it is: But now that I know the first part of the cuff really really well, I’m setting it aside to work on other things. I’m seeing if this hat will work up in some Berroco Comfort I have left over [...]

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Bi-Polar Sock Disorder

My new chart works! Yay! {insert Kermit-the-Frog dance of flaily happiness here} But I miscounted the cast-on, and didn’t notice until I was about twenty-four rows in, and just four rows short of finding out whether the chart worked. {insert chorus of frogs chanting ‘rip it’ here} So now, to frog. On the plus side, [...]

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Yay me! (Maybe)

Last night as I was falling asleep, I thought up how to fix my sock pattern that was definitely-not-working-out. Doesn’t your best thinking always happen when nearly asleep (or in the bathroom)? Luckily I remembered it this morning, but actually charting it out is proving to be harder. I can see it in my head, [...]

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