Oregon Trail socks
for travel knitting, may 2011
Began | June 7, 2011 |
Finished | June 5, 2011 |
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Edited | June 7, 2011 |
Pattern URL | Bandwagon Socks by 19005 |
Made for | me |
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.
used the 40” size at the top and 48” at the bottom, with decreases/increases in the ribbing on both sizes. increased a little more for the bottom section once joining. split hem feature. Cast on so I could knit on this during the Zombie Knitpocalypse 2015. Didn’t make much of a dent until the flight…
Saw this pattern on the Yarn Crawl 2012 at Close Knit and had to make it to match the dress already in process. Using more of the sport-weight cotton to make a hat to match the dress/tunic. Adjusting pattern to make it work with the same feather-and-fan spacing of the dress and my gauge from…
Knit with Willow held double until 40g remained. Knit with Willow and Yarnings until Willow is gone (65 remains in Yarnings) Knit with Yarnings held double until 35g remained, but start decrease rows midway through at 50g – actual was 47. Frogged August 21.
vanilla socks for the new year. CO 14 st, JMCO. probably 360yds, 4.5oz to start. 43g/1.5oz remain.
This pattern is one I came up with after reading a variety of baby mitten patterns and about 4 attempts at the first mitten to get the proportions correct for where the thumb goes. I’d like to write it up and make it available, but haven’t done that yet. It’s a slip stitch pattern rather…