This pattern is lovely, from this book (there's a picture of the socks here). However, the likelihood that I would ever wear thigh-high stockings (in public OR in private) is infinitesimally close to zero, so I scaled them down into regular socks. Granted, they're not as striking this way, but I'm hoping they still come out nicely. In the worst case scenario, I'll still have a pair of hand-knit socks.
I like the vast expanse of plain-old-stockinette, knit on size 1 toothpicks. Seems I'm not the only one who feels this way about stst. I freely admit that Stephanie's expanses of st are way more vast than mine, but this is all the expanseness my mind can comprehend right now. Which is why I'm not knitting my dh that sweater I promised to knit him ages ago.
So above we have 2.5 days worth of progress. I cast on during my sewing group on Monday night. A good amount of time today was spent knitting on the couch, as I believe I'm coming down with something and didn't have the energy to do much else.
However, we see here a possible problem with knitting while addle-brained. Somehow, on the 3rd eyelet (the one at the top, nearest the needles), I managed to shift half of the eyelet to the left. So it will need to be frogged. But it turns out that's ok, because the socks are huge. I don't know why. I did a gauge swatch, and even washed and dried the darn thing before measuring. I'm good with math. And still there's this, which would fit nicely up and over my knee. Perhaps my addle-brain started earlier than I'm aware of, because this Sunday I was helping a friend get started on knitting a hat for her daughter, and after a few rows we pulled it off to find out that it was about the right size for a skirt.
The yarn is Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Cedar, a much nicer green than it appears here. I have a very difficult time getting a true representation of anything green...
can't wait to see how the modified socks turn out - it's a very nice pattern....love the hearts garland-looks very happy and ethereal....
Posted by: debbie | Wednesday, 07 February 2007 at 10:51 PM
those are tooooo cute! i must confess...not a knitter. just never struck me as one of my talents. can't wait to see them done. hope you are well!
Posted by: heidi | Thursday, 08 February 2007 at 12:18 PM
The socks are looking great...I love that pattern, but like you said, would never wear anything quite that long. I love the idea of shortening them.
Posted by: Becca | Thursday, 08 February 2007 at 08:42 PM
Can't wait to see how they turn out. Isn't that Lorna's the dreamiest?
Posted by: nuttnbunny | Monday, 12 February 2007 at 10:03 AM