So Summer of Socks 2008 started yesterday, which is good, because I set my green Fleece Artist Somoko aside for my first pair and have been dying to play with it since I finished my blue Somoko pair. It's so lovely! And I just am deeply smitten with the colour. So much so that I took my yarn cake to the paint store and picked a colour from the shades in it to paint my craft room walls. Yes, that's correct, the queen of all things blue has a green craft room. Well, the walls are green...it's yet to become a craft room. It's still empty.
Anyhow, just a short post to show some progress since last night. No, I did not cast on right at 7 am yesterday when it started. I'm not out to win any contests or the like, just enjoy trying some new sock patterns with pretty coloured yarn. My first pattern here is Toe-Up Totem socks by Hakucho (no web link? Hmm...I got it through a Ravelry download. Sorry, hate to do this to you again, but you can find it there I guess.)
This is my first lacy sock pattern...well, first sock pattern of any kind really. I have thus far only done vanilla socks. It's going pretty smoothly. I'm enjoying the lace and I think the pattern and the yarn are a nice match. It's an eight row repeat, which is nice. Instant gratification and all that jazz. Although, the pattern has some small errors. I didn't do the toe the way it was written in the pattern. I find most toe up toes very confusing, and I don't get it. I'll have to post how I start my toe sometime, which to me seems really straightforward and infinitely less fiddly than most of the toe up patterns that I've read. Anyway, I just went ahead and did my toe and in reading the pattern, you would think that you increase to 32 sts, then divide these 32 onto four double pointed needles and begin the lace pattern. But the way it's written, it says 'divide onto four....thereby having 16 sts on each needles. That no work. I'm pretty bad at math, but even I caught that. So you increase to 64 sts, and then divide. Not earth shattering, but ya know...a bit of an oversight I think.
In any event, I'm enjoying this. I have nothing else critical on my knitting plate, as I cleared my summer to just be able to happily and casually knit socks! How long it will take for me to get utterly sick of knitting socks is anyone's guess.
Until later...
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I have been jonesing for some sock pictures all weekend (Donna posted hers on the Rav) , so now I feel like I have had a bit of a "fix". The colour is pretty, although I pictured/remembered it really quite bright ... but it is really pretty! You are sure zipping along on them! Th pattern is nice ... looking forward to seeing how they turn out.
I really love the pattern. Can't wait to see them in person.
I ripped out my first pair and am using my Arequipa Lily Pond for Rib Lace socks and they are coming out much nicer in that pattern.
I couldn't wait to start a pair, so I took some sock yarn camping and cast on and knit three rounds last night after 11pm! I didn't do any more, have to finish that baby set asap, but at least I can say I started on the first day. :)
that sock looks awesome! I've been knitting socks for (counts on fingers ...) 16 years, and I'm not sick of 'em yet!
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