Entrelac Monet

I had leftover yarn from the cabled socks, so here’s the rest of those skeins! With TDS there was always a lot of speculation before a pattern came out as to what it would involve. A few times different people mentioned entrelac socks, and I decided I should make a pair. I figured that entrelac would help this yarn pool nicely, instead of creating stripes, so I went for it, though I was lazy and did a standard foot. At some point I will have to do another pair of entrelac socks-I’ve started having ideas of how I can incorporate the heel in without breaking the entrelac nature of it, and I will have to try it out at some point… I decreased after the cuff, before starting the entrelac, but in retrospect I should have decreased more, as it does actually get wider. Happily there is plenty of stretch in entrelac to hide some of that, unless the wearer likes having puffs at their ankles!

Cabled Monet

I took a break recently from my mosaic project, to be distracted by this cashmere sock yarn. The colorful yarn is the Sophia MCN sock yarn from Primrose Yarn Co, in the color ‘space suit’. The purple is also a merino/cahsmere/nylon blend (both are 80/10/10), but it’s from Willow Tree Yarns and the color is called ‘Regency’.

I knew that I didn’t want to knit up the main color in a plain knit, because I was worried the colors would lose some of their interest, so I decided to go with cables. I did four stitch cables, separated by a single purl stitch, and every other cable goes the opposite direction. I also offset the cables to maintain some stretch. I am very pleased with how these socks turned out-I really like how the texture of the cables breaks up the streaks of color, as compared to the bottom of the sock where I did plain knitting.