finished the first diagonal stripe and found it would be hard to do the short rows after the stripe two at a time (2AAT). hibernating while I decide if I want to do them one at a time.
| Began | May 27, 2014 |
| Finished | June 18, 2014 |
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| Edited | June 24, 2014 |
| Pattern URL | Mystik Spiral Socks by 483702 |
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…
gauge is 6 st/in, between fingering and DK on needles in between those as well. Casting on the fingering size 12mo and it will just be slightly big so she can wear it longer probably doing short sleeves.
Found a new-to-me fiber dyer on Etsy, DnD Fibers, and purchased 8oz of one colorway and 8oz of another to spin up. They are both 85% polwarth and 15% tussah silk. One colorway was a soft pink, a purple leaning pink, a steely gray, and white, and the other was soft pink leaning lavender, the…
all yarn held double.
I modified this pattern to be smaller since he was a preemie. I also carried a strand of Bernat Softee to make it use more of the color out of the booties that went along with it as a gift. I omitted the pompom and the top looked beautiful without it.
I changed the Sky architecture to be toe-up, and that was a little more difficult!
