Two pairs of socks, pre-blocking.I've been knocking out quite a few knitting projects this past week and it feels good to finish up some of these works in progress. Don't know where all the mojo's coming from but I'm riding the wave of productivity.
My brother's Christmas socks are finished. I know it's early but the holidays always sneak up on me so I'll be especially grateful to have these done come December. I used Trekking XXL knit with JWR's size 1 needles because I wanted a really tight fabric. The ribbing is a nice, interesting, and simple pattern, Ridges and Ribs, found on Ravelry.
I wish the photos were better. It's a gray day today and the lighting in the house is not that great. The yarn is actually much darker than it appears -- a charcoal gray with flecks of bright purples and blues. It's nice stuff, manly-man yarn. The socks were really stiff when I knit them -- not a bad quality, really -- but softened up markedly once they were blocked. Hopefully they won't get saggy like the other socks I've knit for my bro, a design flaw I haven't figured out how to rectify quite yet.
And I finally finished the herringbone socks, too. After starting at several different points in my balls, I finally found a part of the yarn that didn't pool as badly as before. There are some slight differences in the color striping but only enough to be noticeable to the discerning eye. Again, blocking relaxed these nicely and evened out the fabric from the two-color knitting.
Here, a close-up of the herringbone and the checkered heel (toes are checkered as well).
And here, a sock landscape:
1 comment:
absolutely gorgeous
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