Wild Things, I Think I Love You

Finished these on Sunday night:

My own toe-up pattern, around 5cm longer than I usually knit socks, with no embellishment. Who needs embellishment with such pretty yarn?

Blogger wouldn’t let me post all the pics I wanted to for the last post, so I left this one for the next post. These two books were waiting on the doorstep for my return. They’re both full of fab stitch patterns. Lots of inspiration.

I’m having the same experience with crochet as I did early on with knitting. Oh, I knew the basic stitches and principles, but the more I looked into knitting, the more amazing techniques I discovered that I hadn’t heard of before. Mosaic knitting, lace knitting, fair isle, short rows, broomstick and illusion knitting. Now I’m goggling at Tunisian crochet, filet crochet, spikes, relief, crochet cables and solomon’s knot.

I’ve always liked crochet, but I had no idea it was so diverse.

Of course, once I’d finished Wild Things I had to start another pair of socks. I didn’t feel like knitting the St Ives for the beau yet and selected the cushy goodness of Mega Boots Stretch instead. The two plys are a constant olive green and a burgundy/red/orange graduation. I’d knitted half the toe when I realised these were suitably manly colours, so I checked with the beau and he pronounced them acceptable.

This is going to become the Mega Manly Socks.

Just before we headed off camping I had made some progress on the Vero Jumper. Last night I was finally able to get stuck into it again.

I’m really liking how the strips are coming out. It’s like knitting self-patterning socks – watching the colours change is fascinating and keeps me knitting. Its also a bit giddy-scary. I have only limited control of the colour changes. I can only guess and hope that they’ll line up in flattering combinations.

As for the other two projects in my WIP list, I do keep making progress on the Kimino top, but since it involves acres of stocking stitch it’s definitely a long term project that’ll just have to burble along in the background. The Red Blanket… I’m afraid I haven’t touched the loom since before Christmas. But it’s proving to be a bit of a long termer as well, and I’m in no hurry to finish.

5 thoughts on “Wild Things, I Think I Love You

  1. Your Wild Things socks are fantastic! I have a skein of that yarn in my stash… I may need to move it up in the queue.

    I’m a long-time crocheter, so right now I feel the same way about knitting as you do about crocheting. It’s fun exploring new worlds!

  2. Those finished socks are really pretty. What sort of yarn did you use? I love the colours in your jumper, they look fantastic.

  3. So these are the Lisa Souza socks you just finished (been hidden under a slush pile). They are scrumptious. Looks like you got good length from the skein too!!

    I’m I guess a pretty basic crocheter – if we meet up at a con this year, I shall have to pick your brain.

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