When I got back from our week away my hands were sore from knitting. By Saturday they were fine again… but then I spent most of the weekend knitting. First I worked out the toe-up version of the Re-soleable Sock:
Looks wierd, doesn’t it? Like it has an elephant trunk.
Then I went to my sock yarn stash, considered my options, and chose plain blue patonyle to knit the Centred Snicket out of. It’s a thinker yarn than the Lisa Souza, so I was able to work up to 58 stitches for the foot, 26 for the pattern side and 30 for the sole.
I centred the lattice pattern. Suddenly it was breezy easy knit. No vagrant cable stitches going a needle swapping. But what would happen when I got to the leg part?
Nothing, it seems. I just picked up two extra stitches to increase to 60 and started knitting the lattice all the way around. Of course, it was now necessary to move stitches forward and back between needles for cabling. I expected that. It’s nowhere near as annoying now there’s a good reason for it.
They fit well and look great. While the pattern might not have worked well for me, I still love the design.
I also listened to a lot of podcasts over the weekend. I’ve been lazily entertaining the idea of creating my own sock pattern and seeing if I could get it published somewhere. The re-solable sock, or the toe-up heel flap sock. But the final product is still a plain sock. Perhaps I need to come up with a texture design. Then hearing Lime & Violet talking about their signature socks got me thinking about my own blog title: knitting and chocolate. Could I make a chocolate sock pattern?
*Runs to get her stitch dictionary*
You’d need some sort of knit/purl pattern to simulate chocolate squares, I reckon. Basketweave stitch looks sorta like chocolate squares, but not quite. I’m sure with a bit of time and some graph paper, you could puzzle something out.
I would be the first to knit chocolate patterned socks. How cool!
you really know that you should (make a chocolate sock) – top deck perhaps, with the resolable sock? *grins*
Michelle, it occurred to me last night that your knitted chocolate block was pretty effective at evoking chocolately goodness, so I have noted what you did.
I’ve also been flicking through my stitch dictionary. the trouble is, while purl stitches recede at the sides of knit stitches, it’s the opposite at the top and bottom. I need a way to make squares that sit above a background both ways.
At lunchtime I did some sketches working in a diagonal pattern. It kinda works, but I’m not sure the result would be recognisable as chocolate. It really needs to be a horizontal and vertical grid.
I also tried making bon-bon shapes with cables last night. Not quite what I had in mind, but it could be a viable alternative.
Why does your blog always make me hungry???
Heh. Imagine chocolate socks. I bought choc body wash today (?? I’ll smell like a biscuit!)
Love the shots – great pics! – from the GOR. I’ve been wanting to get down there for about 3 months. Argles!