Archive for January, 2007

Another sock!

Current (blurry) sock in progress:

It’s pretty clearly one of Koigu’s more interesting colorways; I wasn’t sure I liked it initially, but it’s growing on me. Things I’m experimenting with on this sock: calf shaping (again!), starting the slipstitch pattern for the heel before the heel flap (my shoes tend to rub fairly high on [...]

Socks and rambling

This is sort of a crappy picture, but it’ll have to do:

I’m calling these my terra cotta socks because of the great oranges and browns in this yarn.  They were an incredibly fast knit, which is odd when you consider that I cast on 80 stitches at the top (decreased to 60 for the ankle–I’m [...]