Rowan Felted Tweed WIP
OK, this is what I've come up with: the love child of "Thuja" and the Sock of Doom, femmed up with the merest hint of lace. I have inserted spiraling eyelets into the 3/1 seed stitch rib and am planning to reverse the spiral on the second sock. You can see the eyelets because we got creative and rolled up one of BittyBit's bibs and stuffed it into the sock.
My first thought on the heel flap was to do it entirely in seed stitch, to carry down the seed stitch rib into the foot. I'm inordinately fond of this seed stitch rib.
But then I realized that it would probably not make for a graceful heel turning, so I came up with this: an insertion of seed stitch into a stockinette-on-the-edges heel flap. A nod to tradition (cue Tevye) and a stronger nod to sheer bulldog stubbornness, LOL. Stand on your head to see what it will look like on my foot; the light was better this way. I was so pleased that we were able to capture the texture in this shot.
And here's a profile of the happy heel turning.
I mostly like this yarn. I like its softness, and I like that it's easier to get gauge with this yarn than with anything I've ever used before. Must be the alpaca. It knits up nearly as swiftly as the Swedish DK in my first outbound Socks of Doom. And I'm not having to dangle my project once or twice a round in order to untwist an overtwist in the yarn. I really really really like that!
What I'm not crazy about is the flatness of the stitches. They are beautifully, perfectly uniform, and they also seem verging-on-comatose. I'm used to a lot more sproing in my yarn, even if it drives me nuts.
But I may have just come up with a name for these socks. The Stepford Socks?
My first thought on the heel flap was to do it entirely in seed stitch, to carry down the seed stitch rib into the foot. I'm inordinately fond of this seed stitch rib.
But then I realized that it would probably not make for a graceful heel turning, so I came up with this: an insertion of seed stitch into a stockinette-on-the-edges heel flap. A nod to tradition (cue Tevye) and a stronger nod to sheer bulldog stubbornness, LOL. Stand on your head to see what it will look like on my foot; the light was better this way. I was so pleased that we were able to capture the texture in this shot.
And here's a profile of the happy heel turning.
I mostly like this yarn. I like its softness, and I like that it's easier to get gauge with this yarn than with anything I've ever used before. Must be the alpaca. It knits up nearly as swiftly as the Swedish DK in my first outbound Socks of Doom. And I'm not having to dangle my project once or twice a round in order to untwist an overtwist in the yarn. I really really really like that!
What I'm not crazy about is the flatness of the stitches. They are beautifully, perfectly uniform, and they also seem verging-on-comatose. I'm used to a lot more sproing in my yarn, even if it drives me nuts.
But I may have just come up with a name for these socks. The Stepford Socks?
posted by Lynn at 3:15 PM
2 Comments:
Really lovely. I am impressed with your design. I really like the way you used the seed stitch. Nice job!!
Thanks, Punkin. I tried it on late last night [early this morning] after LittleBit returned from working at the charity haunted house, and it seemed way too big. So I went to bed with thoughts of Kermit hopping through my mind.
This morning I worked my sewn cast-off, a là EZ, and tried it on a second time. A little looser than I would ordinarily like, but I'm going to finish them as is.
If necessary, they will become "sit and knit" socks, and I'll buy more of the same yarn and knit a smaller pair to wear to work.
I 95% love this yarn, and I'm thinking a matching pair of gauntlets, a la "Fetching", but probably using seed stitch or maybe just more of this 3/1 seed stitch rib.
I like the Fibonacci-ness of this pattern: 1 skinny column of seed stitch or garter, depending upon how you look at it; 3 stitches of plain knit rib, and 5 purl bumps before you make another eyelet.
My inner mathematician is turning cartwheels!
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