Friday 19 November 2010

FO Friday- Mmmmm, sockitty

These will make another appearance later in the month as my sock of the month for November. I have to say that they are single handedly (footedly?) responsible for renewing my sock addiction. They are part of my Mum's Christmas present, and were going to be normal k3 p1 rib socks, but I decided to go a little more adventurous (just a tiny bit, nothing too fancy or they would not be worn) and do a seed stitch rib.
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The pattern is a combination of Thuja by Bobby Ziegler and the free one that comes with Regia sock yarn. I used Regia 6 ply (for its 10 year hard wearing guarantee) and worked on 3mm needles as I like a slightly denser sock fabric. They worked up so fast it was like magic!
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The combination of bigger needles, a stitch pattern with anything interesting and some coloured yarn was great, I am most definitely back into making socks.
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One ball made exactly one sock, with less than a gram left over. Which was excellent, except the second ball started in a different place so I had to go into the third ball and have quite a bit of leftovers.
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The seed stitch rib shows up much better in real life, but you can just about see it in this photo (also hands are not great for modelling socks when trying to take a photo):
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7 comments:

  1. Beautiful socks! I like how the yarn striped out. What a beautiful gift too.

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  2. Wonderful socks! BTW, "single-footedly" made me giggle. : )

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  3. Your mom is going to love them! I love the colors and striping from the yarn.

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  4. ooh the self striping yarn gives it such a great design!

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  5. I love the socks! When you say they knit up quickly, just how quick is that? I'm thinking about doing some socks...but need to budget my time wisely with all my Christmas projects!

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  6. I did them in a week, but I get quite a lot of knitting done during the day in between working and in the evening when I am watching TV. I would not say I am the fastest knitter in the World (by a long shot, I've seen a youtube video of the lady who is)

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  7. Great socks. It is rapidly approaching sock season for me. Yay time to pull out the tiny circs again (I hate dpns)

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