Knee socks
Jan. 28th, 2007 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaJust finished twenty minutes ago.
Pattern detail:
Pattern: Gentleman's Sock with Lozenge Pattern, from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
Yarn: Mountain Colors Bearfoot, color "Crazy Woman"
Needles: Boye size 0 double-points
Modifications: Really I only took the "lozenge pattern" and the foot shaping and heel construction from the book; I sized these to fit my legs as full-length knee socks. Four sets of the rib pattern (3-3 rib for nine rows, then a row of purl) over 96 sts. Then decreased to 90 sts by k2tog after 14 sts six times on the next row (an all-knit row). Two sets of the 10-row lozenge pattern, then decreased to 80 st over the next 10 row pattern, one pattern even, another 10-st decrease over then next pattern, two patterns even, 10-st decrease pattern, two patterns even...now at 60 sts and start the heel working over 30 sts (rather than the 41 recommended in the book).
I should have used 31 sts for the heel, however, because I failed to keep in mind that the lozenge pattern would not be symmetrical without dropping one stitch off the end of it. Oh well.
Pattern detail:
Pattern: Gentleman's Sock with Lozenge Pattern, from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
Yarn: Mountain Colors Bearfoot, color "Crazy Woman"
Needles: Boye size 0 double-points
Modifications: Really I only took the "lozenge pattern" and the foot shaping and heel construction from the book; I sized these to fit my legs as full-length knee socks. Four sets of the rib pattern (3-3 rib for nine rows, then a row of purl) over 96 sts. Then decreased to 90 sts by k2tog after 14 sts six times on the next row (an all-knit row). Two sets of the 10-row lozenge pattern, then decreased to 80 st over the next 10 row pattern, one pattern even, another 10-st decrease over then next pattern, two patterns even, 10-st decrease pattern, two patterns even...now at 60 sts and start the heel working over 30 sts (rather than the 41 recommended in the book).
I should have used 31 sts for the heel, however, because I failed to keep in mind that the lozenge pattern would not be symmetrical without dropping one stitch off the end of it. Oh well.
