I barely have time to scratch myself lately.. but did manage to produce my quota of socks for March, yay!!
I used a mystery ball of wool from A Homespun House, in a colourway named Peppermint Tea… now, I ask you, is this colour in ANY WAY AT ALL suggestive of peppermint tea? Like is there even the smallest hint in there somewhere… anywhere?!!! INEXPLICABLE!! I’m pretty sure this is going to be the very last ball of mystery wool I ever buy… anyway, naming head-scratchiness aside, I do rather love this neon lollypink colourway; it is very vividly pretty and and it’s going to be a fun one in winter. I jazzed up an otherwise plain sock with three rows of little fair isle hearts at the top; for these I used a few leftovers from my Advent-ure jumper, from the woolly advent calendar I bought from Dingo Dyeworks, here.
The sock pattern is my usual; from a 60s Patons pamphlet, and here is my super advanced and complicated pattern for the hearts. I cast on 60 stitches for my socks, and the pattern is a 10-stitch repeat, therefore each row is repeated six times across each row.
Because they are socks, and I don’t want to risk a toe getting caught in the fair isle yarn at the back when putting them on and pulling through a giant horrible loop of yarn – quelle horreur!! I wove the alternate colour in at the back for every single stitch. Which does make for a nice, neat and very tidy inside!
The current state of the box of socks …
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