Started toe-up, with Judy’s magic cast-on and 12 stitches; increasing up to my standard 72 before starting the lace pattern from Cotty.
Hope to do a toe-up gusset heel to make it match.
| Began | September 11, 2009 |
| Finished | October 1, 2009 |
100% | |
| Edited | February 3, 2010 |
| Pattern URL | Cotty by 121281 |
| Made for | me |
The neutral colors were a set, and the pink was something I bought at another time. Started with 50g of the neutral colors, so I knew I wouldn’t have quite enough for all of it. Adapted to have less stripes after c2 and c3 brioche when I ran out of c2, and did the same…
knit turned hem flat, then joined in the round with helix knitting technique. steeked and made a steek sandwich for the side borders. border uses idea from the book “Crochet Kaleidoscope” motif #15.
swatched personal footprint concept on a single toe and didn’t like yarn. switched to yarn I liked, 2-at-a-time and one of the patterns further in the book that caught my eye as easy but not too hard to follow while setting up my footprint. yeah, yeah, I coulda done a plain version first, but you…
this may finally be the pattern for this weirdly striped Opal. very deep stash! a little scratchy, hoping for workhorse socks. adjusting to do toe-up version, still need to pick a heel, maybe the fleegle heel like my froot loops? February, 2012: needle broke, replaced with a square kollage with a floppy cable and it…
Used up 6 skeins of Simply Cotton to make 5 washclothes, a hand towel, and a small towel for baby Liam. Used this to practice my crocheting.
