Holiday Sock-a-thon knitting has a tendancy to get a bit redundant. Churning out a stockinette socks one after another to capitalize on speed, using computer engineered and hand-dyed yarns to preserve the interest, resulting in the maximum quantity of Holiday sock knitting for the deadline.....December 25th or sooner, if they have to be mailed.
Feeling good about my progress so far, I decided to change it up. I had a yarn that I knew was guaranteed to create a predictable stripe and incorporated a stitch pattern to purposely disrupt the stripeing nature of the hand-dyed sock yarn.
The leg portion of the sock is patterned, while the foot is knit stockinette allowing the stripe to re-emerge.
I like the playfulness of the pattern with the striped yarn. I used Schaefer Nichole Sock yarn, colorway Bugs.
For the basic sock construction, I followed my Basic Stockinette Sock pattern in 2 sizes which is available for free on Ravelry.com.
To begin.
Cast on 64 (72) stitches.
Rib cuff in a *k2, p2 ......repeat to end of round for 10 rows.
Pattern
Row 1& 2 Knit
Rows 3 - 10 *p2, k2 ......repeat to end of round
Row 11 & 12 Knit
Rows 13 - 20 *k2, p2 .....repeat to end of round.
Continue in pattern to desired leg length, ending on row 10 or row 20, before starting heel. Continue to follow the Basic Stockinette Sock pattern until complete.
I rather like how they turned out and want to try it again on another type of hand-dyed yarn.... perhaps one that is guaranteed to spiral.
Until next time ....... Happy Knitting!
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