Wednesday, June 25, 2008

May Mystery Socks

As I posted last month, I had started these last month as part of Sockdown May at SKA group at ravelry. I had to frog them twice, first time due to guage problems and the secound time due to some tricky part in the pattern. As a result, it got a bit boring and that's why it took so long. I did the alternative chart (shorter) for the cuff but made it multicolored instead of monchrome.

I ran out of lighter green in the final chart of second sock, so I had to substitute with another yarn. You can see the different yarn in the picture. These socks turned out quite good in the end. And along the way, I tried my hand at magic loop a.k.a. one sock on one circular needle and loved it. No more DPNs for sock knitting for me!
I plan to give them to my mom who has refused to try them on for now (too hot).

2 comments :

  1. Very pretty! I am always afraid of colorwork socks for that gauge issue. And learning to move away from DPN's is a wonderful advancement don't you think? I am doing 2 circs with socks, and it makes knitting go so much faster. I would think that magic loop would do the same.

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  2. Lovely socks. As always, you do beautiful work.I enjoyed looking at your recent projects. Again, lovely stuff.Sorry to hear about the paypal problems you had.It's difficult here too .
    With Ravelry banned by the UAE government ( don't ask me why - I only hope they come to their senses soon) I have a whole load of patterns missing and lost! I have loads of WIP which were from my Ravelry files!

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