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 🙂
My migraine is a little better today so just read ur new post this morning and the socks r beautiful…you have so much talent and at least u can take comfort in ur talent to read n modify a pattern.i hav never been able to follow one thru to end and only knit or crochet with what i call….by ear…..guess that explaines why you do the beautiful work n i do a dish rag.with ur beautiful spinning n talent knitting u could have ur own tv show…i taught myself on utube…happy knittn n spinnin
Glad to hear you are feeling a bit better. Thank you for your very kind comments 🙂
Was showing friend your socks who teaches at brigham young university n she loved them saying u hav so much talent…looking forward to the tour starting back up in morning..knit n spin on n enjoy the race