The cyclists are having a rest today so I thought I would catch up with a pair of socks I recently finished.

These are the Cirque Socks, a free pattern from Knitty. I used 2.25mm needles and some rather elderly handspun yarn which was a mixture of Dorset fleece and Bluefaced Leicester tops. I had a bit of difficulty extending the pattern to the end of the toes (the pattern just has you stop and knit stocking stitch toes) and also accomodating the toe shaping, because the pattern repeat is quite long and there are only certain points in it which are suitable to start the toe shaping. So they have come out with rather square ends, socks for Roald Dahl’s witches 🙂 I was a bit underwhelmed with the pattern, there were several things in it which I think could be done more simply and elegantly. That will teach me for leaping in and not reading through the whole thing first to see what I would like to change 🙂