Alarming Female

This is beautiful. Don’t you agree? And part of the beauty of it is that one gets to ponder what it will look like once it’s met the swift and ball winder, and then again what it will look like when it starts to become a sock.

The STR colorway is called “Pink Granite.” Hard rock, heh. I may give up all other knitting and knit only socks from this perfectly lovely yarn.

I fiddled around with a stitch pattern that caught my eye, crunched a few numbers, and found my way three repeats into a new sock. And look how interestingly those color repeats are jumping around. It’s a thing of beauty, if I do say so myself. Though I take no credit, for everything I know about sock knitting I learned from Susan and Margene. And that’s no lie.

The picot edge is a variation of Margene’s picot edge, which adorns many* socks I’ve knit, with double yarnovers and double decreases just to change things up a bit. Maybe if I like the way these socks turn out I’ll write out the pattern for anyone who’d like to try it. It’s simple, easily memorized, and goes really fast, with the stitch pattern repeated once on each (of four) needles, and probably 6 or 7 pattern repeats before the heel.

I do like the weight of this yarn, though it does make for thicker socks than, say, Opal (which I also love). It’s beautifully spun, too, and a pleasure to knit.

BTW, I’ve not knit before with Clover** dpns, and didn’t notice they were much longer than the Plymouth dpns I’m used to. However, the longer needles means I can try on the sock without pulling it off the needles, which came in handy when I was testing the stretchiness of the stitch pattern.

*maybe not “many,” since I’ve probably not hit double digits in sock pairs. . .well, maybe. . .but it’s my fav by far and beats an inch of ribbing hands down

**which I bought because I cannot find all my knitting stuff—I fear some is in the back of the garage behind dozens of other boxes—moving sucks big, big. . .time