Girl on the Rocks

Finished! May 31, 2006

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects, Socks — karrie @ 7:08 pm

These are toe-up socks of my own design knit out of koigu. Interestingly, one and a half of these socks were knit on two circulars… One sized 1 and one sized 0. oops! Here is a detail of the pattern.

It is a slip stitch pattern that I thought kinda gave the illusion of a cable (slip stitch pattern from Barbara walker’s Second treasury )… I wanted to have the look of a cable but not deal with the extra needle. I used a short row heel for these, and while it was nice to put the socks right on when i finished knitting the cuff, I was cursing about it the whole time. Also, i tried wrapping the stitches and everything, but I just don;t like how the heel looks. There are still tiny holes along the increases. I thought i might write up the pattern (Gerald, I’m looking in your direction) which is a challenge for two reasons. First, my foot is pretty small, so I think that I would have to call it a ’small’ size and also figure out a medium size. Second, i can only really work out patterns if I write them as I go, so I have to make another pair…

But I already got started with that!

I started another pair in with the yarn that i dyed (the poppysocks color).

Edit:Tragically, this sock is actually a medium, and my foot is a small. I will have to rip back and undo some of the increases. poo.

I’m cheating March 13, 2006

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 7:56 pm

I’m cheating on all of my other knitting projects
with this:

It’s a little bit of handpainted Colonia that I bought just to see if i liked the color. I love it…. Look how it is making a double helix in the color pattern. Man, variegated yarns hypnotize me. It is like they are all self-patterning, you just don’t know what the pattern will be. Usually even when i have solids, I wish they were the kettle-dyed imperfectly colored type. May, you’ve got to love that - c’mon!

By the way, the pattern is My So Called Scarf. I only cast on 26 stitches, and I altered the directions for the knit rows to be k1 *sl1, k1, yo, psso two stitches on right needle* k1. It was just easier for me to figure out what was going on when I did it like that. That general slipped-stitch pattern is also what gives the socks I am knitting a fake-cable look. okay, they don’t really look anything like cables. we’ll just call them textured ribs.

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Socking away in Idaho June 25, 2005

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects, Socks — karrie @ 5:19 pm

It’s weird, but I was just in Idaho again, and rather unexpectedly. I went to help my roommate collect some more rocks for her thesis. Man, it was hot there. Swinging a hammer and climbing precarious cliffs is so much more taxing when it is 90 degrees.

But on to the knitting… i have made great progress on my blauband maxiringel socks. everything but the heel is finished on sock #1, and I just made it past the reinforced toe part of sock #2. I am still getting used to the idea of afterthought heels. Every time I cast off at the top of the sock i get this feeling that I am all finished, and I start to put the sock on my foot. Then i realize that they have no heel and aren’t done yet and it is a bit of a let down. But overall, I prefer toe-up socks to top-down socks just because i think it is easier to try them on as you go when you start at the toe.

i also wanted to point out a link that tina brought to my attention in the comments on my last post. In response to my pleas for koigu pattern suggestions, she pointed me to this link that is a whole page of patterns for 2 skeins of koigu! perfect!

Gifted June 22, 2005

Filed under: Complete Disasters — karrie @ 9:47 am

I got a gift my from my secret
pal!

Chocolate and Koigu. aaahhhh….
perfect. What do you think I should make wiith it? Socks? It really seems too
nice to use for socks.. Thanks secret pal! And tell your dad I said thanks
too