I’m enjoying working on the Spring Forward socks, the lace pattern is very easy to follow and the pattern is well written. I even did a fairly good picking up stitches for the heel, something I’ve had problems with in the past.
I went with 60 rows of the lace pattern for the ankle of the first one and unfortunately have a suspicion that I may not have enough yarn for the 2nd sock. If not, it’s no biggie, the whole process have gone pretty quickly and if I have to rip this one out and start again, it will be good practise and I’ll be able to fix the few errors I did make (the colours of this yarn are very forgiving as far as mistakes are concerned).
Not sure what pattern I’m going to do for the next socks; I do still like the RPM socks from Knitty, but I also really like the Mojo pattern as well and think the stripes of the Austermann Step yarns I have would look really funky in this sock.
Now that I’m getting a bit more into the whole sock knitting thing though, I’ve seen a lot of patterns I like. I have to knit four pair, plus at least one for me though so that’s a good thing. For my Mum, sisters and niece especially, since they were supposed to get their socks for Christmas 2007.
2 Comments
05/30/2009 at 6:41 pm
Looks really good!!! I didn’t realize that a whole ball of sock yarn makes only two socks!
05/30/2009 at 6:43 pm
oh and what about your niece? i got an IOU sock letter too! haha