A fresh pair of socks!

• Kamicha, March 11th, 2008, in Uncategorized
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And the spring brought something new to show: a tangy pair of socks from zesty handpainted Mokkasukka yarn. And look, there is a ray of sun on the set, really!

I haven’t always been too interested about knitting socks. It was probably Eunny Jang’s beautiful Bayerische Socks pattern that managed tho prove me that sock knitting could actually be interesting and challenging.

Before those bayerische I probably had had another thing against knitting socks. I had always knitted too thick ones. While nice in rubber boots and comfortable when sneaking around the house there is not much use for bulky socks for city person (like yours truly). But socks knitted from fingering weight yarn fit in any boots!

The third thing on my road to serious sock knitter was the two-socks-at-the-same-time-on-magic-loop technique. No more lonely singles in my WIP basket!

But back to these chartreuse ones. Actually this pattern is not a good candidate for two socks at the same time technique. Stitches are crossed around the sock body and when that crossing point occurs inbetween needles, you should be able to slide the stitch conveniently from one needle to other. This is possible with two socks on magic loop, but not convenient by any means. The best option for socks with pattern like this would be a short circular. My hands have never adapted to those, though, so I decided to knit one at a time on a long circ, sliding the stitches when necessary.

The pattern itself is quite simple with few but thought knitterly details. Legs are decorated with narrow lace border.

The main pattern was nice to fit to sock surface – I got those diamonds align pretty neatly to heel flaps with those crosses occuring just beginning and end of flap and reinforced heel stitch beginning between the diamonds.

For the toes I got the idea to extend the lines of stitch pattern to wonky whirlpool toes by modifying the standard round toe a bit.

Of course the assistants were around while photographing! They were not too helpful, though…

I have pretty decent notes about these, too. Now I should lay my needles down and write up couple of patterns!