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TKN: Camelot Sock!
The Knitting News: Camelot Sock!
Yes, after three separate posts, the first Camelot sock is finished! (Well, aside from the pesky weaving-in of ends and all that, but we'll get to it, we will.)
I think this may be just about the coolest thing I've ever knitted to completion, ever, and I started the second sock this afternoon without the least bit of grumbling about that sideways garter-stitch cuff!
Here's the sock sort of from the side, so you can see the side gussets.
Here's the pattern on the top of the sock.
And here's a detail of the patterning on the toe.
I wish that bright blue didn't make the sock so difficult to photograph! In real life, it looks fantastic and pops out and is not the bright baby blue that it wants to be when photographed with a flash. These pictures were taken in natural light-- and you still can't see the beautiful heel flap and how all the colours are stranded through the flap to create the cushiest, spongiest heel flap I think I've ever knitted.
Although I mostly knit toe-up socks, these are (aside from the sideways garter stitch cuff) knitted fairly conventionally, from the cuff join (you pick up stitches to start the leg) down to a heel flap, heel turn, side gussets, mega-decreasing, and a decreased and grafted toe. I really like the way they look, and they feel fantastic. Rowan Yorkshire Tweed is very soft, and the layered effect of stranded knitting means these socks will be very warm. I think they're going to wear very well, but of course that remains to be seen. Today I did quite a lot of darning on the mountain colors sock and on my first-ever pair of sock (made with Fortissima Socka). Both these pairs of socks were made on 3mm needles, and I've never had to darn any of the others. I suspect the looser weave has everything to do with it.
I managed to knit a good portion of these socks on the tube, which made me feel good about both my knitting and pattern-retention skills. (OK, I did chart the stranding graph on Sheet-to-Go and make sure it was on the Palm Pilot, but I didn't have to refer to it very often after the first couple of days of working with these socks on the train.
The goal now is to have the socks completed by the 1812Tone Convention, two weeks from this weekend. I think I can do it.
Yes, after three separate posts, the first Camelot sock is finished! (Well, aside from the pesky weaving-in of ends and all that, but we'll get to it, we will.)
- Post about Mermaid Socks and Camelot Socks, with various questions and answers.
- Yarn choice, and another rip-out.
- Progress!
I think this may be just about the coolest thing I've ever knitted to completion, ever, and I started the second sock this afternoon without the least bit of grumbling about that sideways garter-stitch cuff!
Here's the sock sort of from the side, so you can see the side gussets.
Here's the pattern on the top of the sock.
And here's a detail of the patterning on the toe.
I wish that bright blue didn't make the sock so difficult to photograph! In real life, it looks fantastic and pops out and is not the bright baby blue that it wants to be when photographed with a flash. These pictures were taken in natural light-- and you still can't see the beautiful heel flap and how all the colours are stranded through the flap to create the cushiest, spongiest heel flap I think I've ever knitted.
Although I mostly knit toe-up socks, these are (aside from the sideways garter stitch cuff) knitted fairly conventionally, from the cuff join (you pick up stitches to start the leg) down to a heel flap, heel turn, side gussets, mega-decreasing, and a decreased and grafted toe. I really like the way they look, and they feel fantastic. Rowan Yorkshire Tweed is very soft, and the layered effect of stranded knitting means these socks will be very warm. I think they're going to wear very well, but of course that remains to be seen. Today I did quite a lot of darning on the mountain colors sock and on my first-ever pair of sock (made with Fortissima Socka). Both these pairs of socks were made on 3mm needles, and I've never had to darn any of the others. I suspect the looser weave has everything to do with it.
I managed to knit a good portion of these socks on the tube, which made me feel good about both my knitting and pattern-retention skills. (OK, I did chart the stranding graph on Sheet-to-Go and make sure it was on the Palm Pilot, but I didn't have to refer to it very often after the first couple of days of working with these socks on the train.
The goal now is to have the socks completed by the 1812Tone Convention, two weeks from this weekend. I think I can do it.