Hooray! These are currently on their way to my sockpal. Estimated delivery in 5 days or less. They're late because I totally misread the deadline, and thought that it was for the second week of August, when it was really the second. With one sock finished, I realized this at about 11:00pm... August 1.
Shockingly, I did pass my grade 10 literacy test.
Also, these socks are much more attractive in person than the cruddy pictures allow. I was working under restrictions, more precisely at work with a 400 page list that needed sorting on my desk. Also, the lighting was crappy. So, keep your eyes on the cute sock band, okay?
Pattern: Brigit by
Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in Velvet Damson
Needles: Addi Turbo DPNs, 2.00 mm
Mods: Because of the aforementioned row gauge issues, I shortened the rows on the heel flap, and thus reduced the number of stitches I picked up and decreased for. I decreased an extra four stitches over the stockinette portion of the foot, so that it wouldn't be too wide. The row gauge also screwed up the cabling on the foot. There's supposed to be one and a half repeats of the cable pattern on the foot, in other words three of those cables, but with the different row gauge I was getting it probably would have fit my sockpal's Irish husband better than her. So, I cut it down to two and just did ribbing for a few more rows until working on the toe. Changed the decreases on the two very slightly too.
I think I'm even more proud of the sock label I made than my socks, and I like my socks. The rather folk art, over-caffeinated, mouse was a doodle I made at work, and I just taped it onto the sock info and photocopied it onto some bright pink cardstock. Access to these supplies for free, along with access to the lovely and talented K who actually knows how to work the machines, are some of the benefits of my job.
1 comment:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I absolutely adore my socks. They fit perfectly and are so comfy. You are the best!
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