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Pix:Various Knitting Projects:The Sock Delivery Project
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Blue Stockings
It's hard to see the lacy-fishnet texture unless it's on the foot. It took me a while to get the hang of the veil stitch, but I really liked it in the end. Stretchy and interesting. I didn't put in the "seam" at the back, as I couldn't get it to be straight enough. The ribbons are for tying in a bow.
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Vilai
This is an interesting combination of diagonal lace and twisty cables; it's hard to see both parts of the pattern at once, unfortunately.
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Kitri
I really like how the lace turned out, despite my nervousness about the beading. I was disappointed when it became clear that the kit was missing some of the beads (three red beads and about forty black ones), but Kate had some I could use.
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Kitri, close-up
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Red Herring
I really liked this colorway with the herringbone rib, but the herringbone is very non-stretchy, so the leg is very tight compared to the foot. After ripping out once and trying again, I declare these socks not destined to be.
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Stripey Knee Socks
This was my first experiment with the diagonalizing "jogless jog" color change. I'm not sure it's as totally jogless as all that, but it camouflages the color join a bit. I really like the way the purple yarn (Colinette Jitterbug) turned out in the stripes - it might have been a bit much if the whole sock was that yarn.
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One Knee Sock
Look, it basically fits me too!
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Mermaid Gloves
Okay, these aren't technically socks, but they're from the Pomatomus sock pattern. (For Susie)
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Baroque Socks
with "pumpkin pie" yarn in Squoosh Sock from an etsy shop
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Baroque Socks
A different view
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Fiesta Feet (Rose Garden)
I like how these colors turned out. It's interesting to have some variation in the green main color, in addition to the multicolor. I did the top of the foot pattern (the W shapes) slightly wrong, but by the time I noticed, I decided it was better to be consistent than half right.
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Snicket Socks
The pattern is inspired by the dress Violet Baudelaire wears in A Series of Unfortunate Events. I think they look more like chicken wire, but they're pretty chicken wire. The yarn is lovely and soft - it's from Zen Yarn Garden, which I'm currently in a yarn-of-the-month club for. The color is very dependent on the lighting, ranging from sort of yellowy-tan to orangey-brown.
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Rivendell
Pale Sky over Sugared Violet color. As with many socks which have one size only, it's a little tight on the cuff on me. Very pretty, though.
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(Before blocking)
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La Digitessa
Gorgeous color, that I have been totally unable to capture properly with a camera or even the scanner. I ended up moving up a few needle sizes to make them fit (do I knit tightly? Or just have big feet? possibly both), but in the end Eon kept trying to steal them, so he gets them.
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Close-up
I am fascinated by the way that diagonals turn into curves.
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Spiraling Coriolis
This was an interesting pattern from "New Pathways". I find Cat Bordhi's writing style a little confusing (and New Pathways in particular requires referring to about six places in the book for any pattern - there for magic numbers, here for cast-ons, there for toes, a bit further for heels, etc - you can't just xerox the pattern and carry it in the project bag!), but she's certainly pushed the boundaries of sock architecture amazingly. The yarn is from Pigeonroof Studios on etsy, and was a lot of fun to work with, though once knit up, the colors muddle together a bit.
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Camo 'pode
And, just enough yarn left over to make an octopus.
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Sock Parasite!
I knit the second sock to a gentler tension and it's easier to put on. So I'm knitting a third sock out of the first sock to (hopefully) match.
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Autumn Ocean
This is Cat Bordhi's Autumn Toes, done in Sundara sock yarn. I think the yarn is gorgeous and the pattern is interesting, but the panels of diagonal stitches make it really hard to put on over the heel. What is it with diagonal panels? Sure, they look nice, but they take all the useful stretch out of knitting.
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Vintage Socks
These are probably the most dramatic socks I've ever made, and they're finally done. Oddly, the leaves on the second sock curl up a lot more than on the first sock. Maybe I should block them a second time. (for Jess)
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On Foot
(This gives a better view of the heel, and what the leaves look like when the cuff stretches)
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17 Leaves
This is a set of leaves for the first sock, pinned out to block. They're really cute.
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Leaves Closeup
(pinned out for blocking)
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One Leaf
The first leaf from the leafy sock.
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Replacement Felted Slippers
Jerry wore out his old grey slippers, so this is a replacement set. Instead of sewn-on soles (which didn't really fit the bottom of the foot quite right), this is an experiment with rubber paint (the sort that you coat tool handles with!) .
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Arch Socks
The yarn (one of the Opal colorways) kind of obscures the interesting shaping; here is a picture of another set, where the shaping is more clear. Though the toe is different on that one. This one might actually be for me. :)
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Crystal Lattice Socks
These are for a Christmas present. I'm very pleased with the way the lattice stitch worked out (it's something of a ribbing, so it tightens quite a bit), and the garter stitch at the edges of the heel picks up very neatly. The only thing I didn't like is, I think tubular cast-on is the Wrong Cast On for anything other than a k1 p1 ribbing. Dunno what was up with that choice.
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Pomatomus
Another Pomatomus sock, this one in Socks that Rock (colorway "Nodding Violet"). They have some really lovely yarn, which I would be a little more tempted to buy lots of if I didn't have so much sock yarn stashed already. This yarn was Kate's, so she got the socks. :)
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Rain and Rainbows
This is another Fiesta Feet sock. I need to stop picking a base color that goes with the multicolor, and pick a base color that contrasts with it, but I'm convincing myself that it's a Subtle Effect here, so I'm no longer unhappy with it.
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Comfy Black Sock
This is the "Pretty Comfy Sock", in black Fixation. It has a short-row heel, which I always find a little weird to do, but it seems to work okay. I like the mellow semi-lace wave pattern. (For: Kate)
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Rapunzel's Toe Braid
This is in Austermann Step, which has extra bonus aloe.
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Pomatomus
This one was part of the livejournal art project meme. I did an earlier Pomatomus sock for Christmas, but failed to get a picture of it. I really like this pattern; the twisted stitch "scales" are strong enough to stand up to a multicolored yarn without getting lost. (For: Donna)
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Purple and White
A fairly plain sock in Opal (or maybe it's an Opal wanna-be) white-with-purple-dots yarn. I wanted something mindless for knitting during Vatican, but then I didn't really get much done. It's a little narrow, due to a miscount when I started. (For: ?)
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Crazy Daze
An attempt to repeat the purple and white Crazy Daze mosaic socks, but in a thicker (and hopefully less wearout-able) wool. Still purple and white, but the purple is a Koigu multicolor. (For: Eon)
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Alligator Shell
This time in a cotton/wool blend. (For: Sara, if it's non-wool enough)
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Fancy Shell Footstool
in Joslyn's purple Twinkletoes.
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Rapunzel's Toe Braid
Another duplicate, but in Opal instead of the thicker Joslyn yarn. The cable definition came out better than I expected. It's probably better for someone moderately thin-footed, though, because the cables pull in a lot, possibly more so in the Opal. (For: Christmas)
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Trellis Lace
Another iteration of this one, in grey instead of brown. It's a shame that the interesting yarns don't do as well with the interesting patterns, they just fight. This is subtle enough that it just gets drowned out by colors. (For: Kate)
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Purple Fuzzy
A pair of basic socks with yarn from Meg, but attempting to fit her foot in particular. (Oops, should have made the ankle tighter, but the rest seems good). (For: Meg)
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Ribs on the Side
This is another Joslyn kit. The pattern comes in two versions, though I suspect that most people do two of one or two of the other. Still, it makes a good pair of not-matching socks, which makes them perfect for Marleigh. (For: Marleigh)
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Alligator Shell Socks.
Another Joslyn sock of the month kit. As with many such, the lace and multicolor-ness might both be better separately. This wool is a little finer than is used in Peak Experience or the Rapunzel Toe Braid, and not as fine as the Twinkletoes for Waves of Grain or Line of Fire. Probably the same as Pinwheels of Easter, now that I think of it.
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Fiesta Feet, again
Main color purple, wildly multicolored contrast color. (Somewhat accidentally, the top half of the sock is in size 0, and the main body will be in size 2. But last time I made a pair of these I decided "Ithink a third attempt might want to use different size needles for the bit above the heel" so it's a good experiment).(For: Pat Schoch (mother-in-law-in-law))
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Diamond Patch
This is another of Joslyn's sock of the month socks. Each diamond is picked up and knit separately, so while it looks really interesting, there's a lot of weaving in to be done. Did I mention I hate weaving in? Still, I've not done one of these diamond patterns before, and it's novel. Several people suggested doing it all in one thread (which isn't feasible), but four does turn out to be mostly feasible, and cuts down on the weaving in quite a bit. I hope they don't feel different because of that. ARGH! I made one pair with one more set of diamonds than the other! They're different leg lengths. Sulk sulk sulk. Must rip out cuff ribbing and half-diamonds and restart. Hmm. I wonder if the Bad Sock is too long or too short. If it's too long, that would require less extra knitting to fix... Finally done. Happily, the bad sock was too long, so fixing it wasn't interminable. (For: Mikka)
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Butterfly Lace
Opal "bumblebee" yarn, butterfly lace pattern. It's called butterfly lace because the lace open holes are in groups of four, like a butterfly's wings. But the loudness of the yarn makes the lacework very difficult to see. I think I prefer plain yarn for lace. (For: Meg)
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Trellis Lace
This is an Opal sock of the month pattern (though it's not actually Opal yarn). It looks a little like cables, but it's really lacework. (For: christmas present)
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Waves of Grain Sock
This is another of the Joslyn's socks of the month. I really like the way this particular yarn, Twinkletoes, feels (it's the same very thin weight as the Line of Fire socks. Though I suspect it may wear out quickly. (For: christmas present)
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Grandmaster Socks
This is an interesting experiment. The black yarn (with little colored specks) is Regia, the red is leftovers from Joslyn's Line of Fire (see below). This first attempt at a dagger is done with cabled stitches, but it's intarsia, which requires that the yarn go back and forth, rather than round and round. So there's a seam. - Lesson one: The waves in the wavy dagger aren't pronounced enough. At the top I think they want to wave by two stitches, not just one.
- Lesson two: It bunches terribly. I think my floats are loose enough, but the stitch being cabled behind can't really be loosened so well. I think the waving should happen with increases and decreases to the sides, rather than cabling.
- Lesson three: The seam is too bulky. I'm doing it by going to the end and then wrapping the neighboring stitch, which works okay for joining, but I think it needs a thinner seam.
- Lesson four: I like the way the cabled handle turned out. That part I'll keep.
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Fat Seam
(Fixed in the following sock)
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Second Grandmaster Socks
I'm much happier with the second attempt. The seam is flat and unbulky, the dagger waves nicely and doesn't bunch (decreases and increases to move it, rather than cabling). (For: Hongyi)
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Bar Eight Cable Sock
This is a sock of the month pattern from the Opal sock club, rather than Joslyn's Fiber Farm. Opal is a thinner, harder-wearing yarn than most of Joslyn's; they're comfy, but not snuggly. And machine washable. Still interesting to knit, and comes in all sorts of interesting colors. The stripes are from the yarn, the cable isn't very visible in the thumbnail picture, but is a lot more clear in the blowup. (For: Father Terry)
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Fiesta Feet, Mark 3
These are the "wacky socks in red and black". The black is basic, the red is "Ember" from Shepherd Socks, which means it's really red and grey and a sort of grey-red that looks a little like purple. (For: Chris)
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Rickrack Socks
After the Heidi knee socks, I wanted to do something easy. These are another Sock of the Month pattern from Joslyn, and went very fast. The colorway, is "Pinwheels of Easter". The picture here is of the finished socks, on a scanner instead of with the digital camera - that seems to make the stitch definition come out a lot better. (For: Meg)
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Knee Socks
These are the Austrian Knee Socks from _Socks Socks Socks_ for Heidi, in white Fixation yarn. Fixation is definitely heavier than is called for, so the pattern's been altered a little to decrease the number of stitches. It's still not the best of yarns to see a fancy twisted-stitch pattern in, but it's a little better than in the mushroom color. The pattern in the book is terribly buggy, I shall have to write them and complain. Yay! Done, finally. Heidi calls them Lursa and Batour, after the two Klingon sisters ("Those are not mook socks, those are named socks).
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Knee Sock Closeup
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Line of Fire
This is another sock of the month. The twinkletoes yarn has a lovely feel to it, and the pattern has an interesting barred fake-cable, that the picture doesn't really bring out. I suspect it will turn the wearer's feet red. (For: Marleigh)
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Peak Experience
Another sock of the month - "Peak Experience" in the Northern Lights colorway. (For: me!)
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Cabled Purple Stripey Socks
This pair is in more Opal auto-striping yarn, and uses the mysterious pass-over cable from the Birkenstock socks. (For: Mikka)
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More Felted Booties
(before felting)
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More Felted Booties
(after felting) Grey and green booties (two of the traditional three Eon knitting colors). I have to mail-order this darned yarn (Brown Sheep) since Woolcott doesn't carry it any more. Woe! And I messed up on the second yarn order and got the wrong green. Note the toe. And, this time I'm putting feet on the bottom. (For: Eon)
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Three-color Old Marleigh Socks
These are actually done a while ago - I tried three times to knit the fair isle "best of show" socks from _Socks Socks Socks_, and each time they just were unwearably inflexible due to all the floats. I eventually did a different pattern with the same yarn, also from _Socks Socks Socks_.
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Blue Stripey Basic Sock
After cables and cables and knitting too many inches of arm sock (oops), I want something very simple and fast. Meg is dubious about wool socks, so this is an attempt to convert her. It's using a Regia "shadow" striped yarn which I really like the look of. (For: Meg)
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Crazy Daze Socks
This pair is the second of the sock of the month kits. Well, it isn't actually the second kit, it's just the second I'm doing. It's a mosaic knitting pattern, which I've never done before, and it's in quite fine yarn. The fact that mosaic/garter stitch (the pattern, on the leg and top of the foot) is much more vertically condensed than stockinette (the stripes on the sole of the foot) makes the sock scrunch up a little oddly and not lie flat. Happily, it turns out fine when worn. Alas! They have worn out! It seems that non-nylon-reinforced socks shouldn't be worn around without shoes on a daily basis. Perhaps there will be replacements, after the booties are done. (For: Eon)
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Felted Sock Boot (pre-felting)
This thing is astonishingly fast to knit. Make a huge bootie sock, then felt in the washing machine. The pictures are from before and after felting; the fork is for size reference. The pattern is from Socks Soar. The yarn is Brown Sheep Bulky - the mohair really comes out as top fuzz in the felted sock. Lopi might be better if that effect wasn't wanted. Jerry reports that they're very warm.
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Felted Sock Boot
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Skiing Socks
This is another double-yarn pair, using plain brown and variegated brown Opal. Much like the other Thickish Socks pairs shown below, but in my favorite little mock-cable pattern from the ever-present Birkenstock socks. Because of the variegated yarn, you really can't see the cables, but they're there, and they make it quite elastic. (For: Derrick)
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White "Birkenstock Cable" cotton socks
These are those cabled socks again, this time in cotton. I'm becoming more dubious for cotton for knit socks; it seems like the yarn is soft and shreds easily, like Fixation, or hard and not necessarily comfortable. But I don't think I'm going to convert allergic people to wool. Oh well. (For: Kate)
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Fiesta Feet in Black and Aqua
This is take two on this sock; the first time was coming out a little tight. I think I did it in a smaller needle size than the first pair, which wasn't ideal. The top is a little slouchy; I think a third attempt might want to use different size needles for the bit above the heel. (For: Marleigh)
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Camo Socks
This is another completely plain sock, in elastic Regia. I don't know how much wool really needs elastic, but I'll see how it goes. (For: me. Hah!)
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Gold Brazil Socks
This is an utterly plain sock, done in a gold-and-brown colorway of Opal's Brazil line. Heidi calls it magic yarn; all the stripes and dots are built into the yarn, I don't have to do any work at all myself. (For: Mikka)
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Boring Thickish Socks
This is another one of the cabled socks like the Brown Hiking Sock below, but with greys and blacks. The grey is a variegated German yarn, the black is Wildfoote (still a little thin for me); toes and cuffs are two strands of black and body is one strand each of black and grey. I like the way the grey/black combination turned out, sort of interestingly mottled. (For: Nick)
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Rapunzel Toe Braid
This is another of the Joselyn's Fiber Farm sock patterns, in Rose Quartz colorway. Amusingly, the cables are very similar to the mushroom socks below. However, you can't really see them in the picture. Alas. (For: Adina)
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Mushroom Cable Sock
This is a test run with Fixation (stretchy cotton), using the twisted-stitch pattern in Socks Soar.... The Fixation is "mushroom" colorway, which is an interesting sort of multicolor in browns and yellows and pinkish grey, probably not ideal for cables but oh well.
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(As Worn)
Results of the test run: probably good for someone small-footed, but otherwise comfortable. The stitch definition is a little better in real life than in the picture, but it's not amazingly crisp in this yarn. And I don't seem to be very good at taking pictures of my feet. (For: Heidi, the small-footed)
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Stained Glass Sock
This is the first of the sock of the month patterns. The yarn is a bit thicker and the gauge tighter than a lot of the other socks; these will probably be comfy warm socks.
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Brown Hiking Sock
The pattern is from Socks, Socks, Socks for a worsted yarn. I did this one in two different colored strands of Regia sock yarn, with two strands of the same color for accents. It's a large heavy sock. (For: Schochs)
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Grey Men's Sock
The pattern is the basic sock from Socks Soar on Circular Needles, and it's knitted to the men's size, with dark grey Regia. Kinda boring, I know. The picture's been tweaked a little to let the stitches show up more clearly, otherwise it looks like a grey sock-shaped blob. (For: Schochs)
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Purl Lace Sock
The pattern is a simple purl lace sock from Socks, Socks, Socks, knitted in a speckled Opal yarn, which makes it nigh-impossible to see the pattern. This is more of a women's sock, especially since it turned out a little slouchy.(For: Schochs)
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Stripey Twist-Top Sock
This is another pattern from Socks Soar with a cool twisty i-cord top. It's knitted in (I think) Regia, in one of those automatic striped colorways. (For: Schochs)
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Wacky Colorful Sock
This is a pattern that Woolcott sold me to go with the multicolor Koigu yarn (I am reminded that the pattern is Lucy Neatby's "Fiesta Feet", to give credit where it is due). I don't know where you'd wear these, but I think they're neat. The bobbles do take it a little over the top. And I have some blue Koigu for a second pair... (For: Schochs)
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Cabled Sock
Here's another one from Socks, Socks, Socks that you're supposed to wear with Birkenstocks. It's knitted with beige Regia, the same as one of the strands for the hiking sock above. This one has also been image-enhanced so you can see the stitches a little better. (For: Schochs, plus Susie got one too)
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Hyperspace Socks
These are based on the "Maple Swirl Sock", the cover picture in Socks, Socks, Socks without the extra dots. They're fascinating to look at, and wacky to knit (leading to people calling them "hyperspace socks"), but not really comfortable to wear (largish gauge, garter stitch in cotton yarn) and million of ends poke out in the wash. No more of these. :) (these for Eon)
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(colorway for rif)
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(colorway for Mikka)
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