Here’s the first Mosaic Sock:

The toe-up toe uses the figure 8 cast on method. It’s unusual in that it starts with 36 stitches, which makes it a rather short flat-edged toe. I quite like it.

The heel is an afterthought heel, and knit with decreases at each side just like a top-down toe.

Yes, you can see skin through those stitches. The pattern specifies 2.75mm dpns, which is larger than I usually knit socks with and makes for a rather gappy fabric. Maybe the yarn specified for these socks is a lot thicker than the usual sock yarn. Maybe larger needles are meant to counteract the pull that happens when stranding yarn across the back of colourwork. But if I knit this pattern again, I’d choose smaller needles.

Overall, it’s an easy pattern once you get into it. And the sock sure is pretty!

Here’s the first Ripple Weave Sock. The knit-through-the-back knit stitches are giving me flash backs to Pomatomus.

I can tell this colour yarn is going to be a little challenging to photograph.

Finally, last night I had a sudden burst of startitis. I began another crochet headscarf, but frogged it after it became clear the hook I’d chosen was just too small for the stitch pattern I’d chosen. And a good thing, too. This morning I had to wonder at myself for picking the most lurid shade of aqua. Maybe it looked different under electric light.

I’ve had an itch to knit a beret or tam lately. Do I like berets and tams? Not particularly. Do I look good in berets and tams? Not really. But I seemed to have reached a certain stage of the knitting obsession:

I’m knitting one just because I haven’t before, and the construction is so interesting.

And I have to say, this Alpaca Classique is really nice.