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March 05, 2007
and another revealing: a new sock
Oh friends, recently I was very sneaky....and I have to admit, that it was quite difficult for me to keep this seacret from blogging. It has been remaining my top knitty priority since some time, now I can show you my secret sock, which has been completed some days ago and waited to be taken the photos with sunlight:
Do you remember this pattern? It was not a sock. I adpted this gorgeous pattern from Gramperina's Shifting Sand Scarf!
I asked her to advice me if I could make socks with Shifting Sand pattern, and she agreed generously about it. Since I made a Shifting Sand scarf for DH, I have been sort of obsessed with this pattern. Until this scarf I could not do cables without cable needle and once I could master this technique by her kind and detailed tutorials, I love it so much, and then I've got this luscious sock yarn from Sundara, and hit by this idea.
I hope you can see the details of the sock...it has short-row heel, the top rib is 3x2 according to the pattern's stitch numbers. The sock has, though, not much elasticity due to its back and forth allover cabling pattern. But it fits well if you do sizing carefully. and Also, as you know the cable pattern naturally shrinks the garment, you need much more stitches to cast on for normal woman's foot than usual. It took quite a long to finish this one sock...yes, I have not yet made the pair. The reason I think is not only for the stitch numbers and allover cabling, but also the beauty of the yarn itself...I have to confess that after knitted up almost each row or each needle, I just looked the yarn and garment to admire...the glorious beauty of the yarn. So confortable to both hand and eye. The accurate color of yarn is rather this one:
The coloway looks deep purple-navy, very rich color.Like blueberry skin.
The specs:
Pattern: My own for the courtesy of Grumperina's Shifting Sand scarf pattern
Yarn: Sundara Yarn 's merino sock yarn, somewhat solid "Light navy over Pink"
Details: 75 stitches to cast on(40 for instep and 35 for sole), short-row heel
Needle: US#1 Susan Bates dpns
To cereblate the sock, I even made a blueberry pie, to match the colorway!
Yummy. Um.
Posted by trico at March 5, 2007 12:10 PM
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The sock is very beautiful using shifting sand pattern, same as knitting the scarf in this pattern.
Posted by: handknit168 at March 7, 2007 10:55 PM