Christmas Knee Socks
Started out with Judy Becker’s cast on with 14 stitches and worked my normal increases and foot. Now I’ll look at the pattern 🙂
Started out with Judy Becker’s cast on with 14 stitches and worked my normal increases and foot. Now I’ll look at the pattern 🙂
| Began | November 17, 2009 |
| Finished | December 24, 2009 |
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| Edited | December 29, 2009 |
| Pattern URL | Anne Diamond Knee Socks by 30411 |
| Made for | me |
I didn’t have a recipient in mind, I just needed something to do while on a trip. And I wanted to see how Stripes worked out in this pattern. Pretty cool actually, a pleasing color scheme and a nice knit. I did the picking up a little nicer this time around; by going into more…
knitting along with the Knit Knit Cafe podcast KAL. Yarn was purchased at OFFF 2011, and it’s got some silk content like the original pattern. The colorway is Echo, ala Dollhouse. With silver, ooh Shiny! This skein is just a little short for the larger shawl so I did the smaller version. Did one extra…
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.
A springy happy version of Urbanity. The Lilt Sock is slightly lighter than the Trinity Sock, so it made a more airy fabric, by just a touch. The silk makes it luxurious. The drop stitches worked up so nice in this yarn too.
been in my queue since December 2007. Started swatching on size 4’s, need to go up a needle size which means finding the next size tips in whatever project they are in 😉