Gee thanks...
Ravel sulked in the background after I shooed him away. (He's named after Maurice Ravel, not the thing you do with yarn.)
Laila's Socks
Yarn: Regia black and Regia variegated, fingering weight sock yarn
Pattern: from Folk Knitting in Estonia by Nancy Bush
Needle: US size 1 Addi Turbo
Notes: I first followed the heel as written but didn't like the heel turn that much, so I ripped it out and used my regular heel turn instead. I played with a few of the color repeats, sometimes doubling the blues or sunset repeats. I added a few extra rounds of colorwork on the foot to make it a little longer.
As far as colorwork goes this was easy, I didn't need to refer to the chart or carry it around. If you like the look of colorwork, but don't want to refer to a chart after every few rounds to see what's next, then this is a great pattern for you.
My younger brother asked for a hat like the (boring) Seahawks hat I made Dad last year, but he hasn't decided on the colors yet. So I guess that's what I'll be working on soon.
9 comments:
Those are absolutely gorgeous! The combo of black and variegated yarn is very eye-catching.
Those are seriously gorgeous socks -- the colours just pop!!
The socks are beautiful!
Truly superb!
Found you(r) sock again! Blog hopping the other day so couldn't remember where I'd seen the beautiful black & variegated sock.
(Ever see something you forget to bookmark and then can't find it later? yeah!) Half hour later trying to retrace my blogger steps; keywords: "sock variegated with black" - ATLAST!
I had about sworn off variegated yarn until I saw this! Couldn't get the picture memory out of my head.
MUST.TRY.THIS! Beautiful.
Those are breathtakingly bautiful. And that photo of the cat! What eyes.
Li
Wow! I have to learn to knit socks (and learn to knit colorwork). What a beautiful cat you have too!
Gorgeus socks. The colors are brilliant!
This was great to reaad
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