Bellwether

My current pair of socks is, as the title implies, a hot mess. I’m using a very highly variegated Lorna’s Laces colorway (Iris Garden) and it’s been difficult to find a stitch pattern that was interesting enough to keep me from getting bored as well as one that didn’t get completely lost. And since I finished my second pair of Monkeys in the week before I cast on for these, that pattern wasn’t an option.

So this is what I’ve come up with:

The colorway is, I admit, a bit on the garish side and I chose it because I started these socks at the Romantic Times Booklovers’ Convention in Pittsburgh last month (I am their SF/F reviewer) and it just seemed too Jacqueline Kirby in Die For Love–in lieu of wearing a big ruffly dress and Southern belle hat, that is. IN other words, I couldn’t resist. And the yarn’s been in stash for a couple of years and since I’m trying to work my way through said stash (with better intentions than results)…

It’s a simple 4-row repeat in which three of the four rows are knit plain and the pattern row is basically paired yarn overs on a stockinette background–hardly original, and I think if I were to knit another pair with this pattern, I’d try to do the pattern on row three in the middle of the stockinette so you’d end up with some sort of staggered eyelet thing going on. But I’m not going to rip this out again to try. I have probably 3 more repeats to do on the cuffs before i move onto the heel and foot.