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Jun 15, 2007
@ 09:17 pm

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The Rainy Day Socks are DONE and I’m really pleased with them. The lace stitch pattern is really simple, knits up fast, but looks cute. The yarn is typical Novita and nothing spectacular, but it compliments the stitch pattern nicely. It also behaved nicely and didn’t pool. Instead, I have these funky ladderstep/lightning-shaped stripes in the sock soles. :) Pattern: Rainy Day Socks (ravelry) by Yuliya Sullivan, from March 2007 MagKnits Yarn: 150g ball of Novita Nalle Colori (75% wool / 25% polyamide), colorway #813 (aqua/light blue/denim) Needles: 3.5mm 80cm INOX aluminum circular needle Mods: knitted toe-up, anatomically shaped toe using Turkish cast on and asymmetrically placed increases, K2Knits’ revisited Widdershins heel Now I’ll take a week’s pause from sock knitting (although I did swatch a bit lot for my next project) because… Summer of Socks 2007 kicks off June 21st! I already have the first pattern and yarn picked out but I’m gonna have to do some tweaking with the pattern cause apparently my gauge is way off (that’s why the furious swatching).

The Rainy Day Socks are DONE and I’m really pleased with them. The lace stitch pattern is really simple, knits up fast, but looks cute.

The yarn is typical Novita and nothing spectacular, but it compliments the stitch pattern nicely. It also behaved nicely and didn’t pool. Instead, I have these funky ladderstep/lightning-shaped stripes in the sock soles. :)

  • Pattern: Rainy Day Socks (ravelry) by Yuliya Sullivan, from March 2007 MagKnits
  • Yarn: 150g ball of Novita Nalle Colori (75% wool / 25% polyamide), colorway #813 (aqua/light blue/denim)
  • Needles: 3.5mm 80cm INOX aluminum circular needle
  • Mods: knitted toe-up, anatomically shaped toe using Turkish cast on and asymmetrically placed increases, K2Knits’ revisited Widdershins heel

Now I’ll take a week’s pause from sock knitting (although I did swatch a bit lot for my next project) because… Summer of Socks 2007 kicks off June 21st! I already have the first pattern and yarn picked out but I’m gonna have to do some tweaking with the pattern cause apparently my gauge is way off (that’s why the furious swatching).

May 20, 2007
@ 02:25 pm

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What’s on my needles (and hooks) these days: I just know I’ll have a super crappy and busy week next week cooped up in a classroom so I had to cast on Rainy Day Socks as comfort knitting. We had *one* rainy day last week but after that it’s been nothing but gorgeous, sunny spring days. On that socky note, I’ve considered joining in the Summer of Socks 2007 but haven’t signed up yet cause I’m such a procastinator. Other projects: cable purse from DROPS, toe-up toe socks that are totally suffering from the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome, and an amigurumi bunny in the softest bamboo blend yarn. I’ve also done some dye experiments with food dyes…

What’s on my needles (and hooks) these days:

I just know I’ll have a super crappy and busy week next week cooped up in a classroom so I had to cast on Rainy Day Socks as comfort knitting. We had *one* rainy day last week but after that it’s been nothing but gorgeous, sunny spring days. On that socky note, I’ve considered joining in the Summer of Socks 2007 but haven’t signed up yet cause I’m such a procastinator.

Other projects: cable purse from DROPS,

toe-up toe socks that are totally suffering from the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome,

and an amigurumi bunny in the softest bamboo blend yarn. I’ve also done some dye experiments with food dyes…