Sockapalooza ~ Socks #11/2007
My
Sockapalooza pal
Holly has
received her socks!
*Be sure to check out
Holly's pictures as they show the lace pattern better than my photo does*
I started out knitting
Wyvern socks, but realised the 'scales' weren't showing too clearly with the colour of the yarn... so I flipped through some books for ideas, and came across "Padded Footlets" in
Favorite Socks. A bit of tweaking and designing later, and voila... my first pair of toe-up socks (finally OzKnitter's knitted toe-up socks, I hear some of you exclaim)!
The yarn is
Elizabeth 100% Superwash Merino from
Live2Knit in the "Smoke" colourway. It's lovely and soft, a dream to knit with (it 'takes' frogging well too).
They fit and Holly loves them, so I'm delighted.
Labels: Aussie yarns, Favorite Socks, Live2Knit, Sockapalooza, socks, swaps, toe-ups, Wyvern
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Catch up
The
Fall 07 issue of Interweave Knits has lots of socks!
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Not much knitting has been occurring lately as I've been fighting a nasty cold. Hope to back to 100% soon!
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Go
Cadel! He's looking good (in my opinion) and I've got my fingers crossed that he makes it to Paris in one piece (I'm not going to jinx him, so I'll just leave it at that...)
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Now... about
that toe-up toe...
Ms
Yarnivorous showed me the cast on. You basically wind the yarn counter-clockwise around 2 needles held together. No knots or provisional cast-ons required. The technique is also in the Summer 07 issue of
Interweave Knits.
For the first toe, I *think* I started with 16 stitches on each needle. I discovered this was too wide so went down to 8 (as seen in previous post). I knitted the first round, and increased by knitting into the front and back of the second and second last stitches on each needle on the next round. I repeated these two rounds until I had the number of stitches I needed.
Hope this helps!
Labels: Interweave Knits, TdF, toe-ups
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