a blog mostly about sock knitting
It’s all my mom’s fault, to start with.
It’s because of her I knit, and, in particular, that I knit socks. She got me to make my first pair of mosaic socks in summer 2017, and she gave me my copy of Barbara Walker’s Mosaic Knitting book. For all of that, I thank her. I can’t blame the next step on her though. It was solidly my decision to start at pattern 1 in the book, and to knit each mosaic into a pair of socks. This blog though, is her fault, and that of my knit group, both of whom have been strongly encouraging me to write about this.
So, because of this mosaic sock project, they got me to start a blog. I started writing it after finishing pattern 17, so the first several are my remembrances. I was ambitious back then, frequently doing three pairs from the same pattern! Then I looked at how many patterns were in the book, determined about how long I was taking to knit a pair, and decided I could only afford to do one pair of socks per pattern, unless there was some tweak I could do to make it transformative, if I wanted to get through this project in less than five years. Currently I’m knitting a pair a week, and that’s my aim. Some of these patterns have names given by Barbara, for the rest I get to decide what I think it looks like. We call it the mosaic knitting Rorschach test.
While this mosaic knitting project was what inspired the blog, I had to post my other projects too, so welcome to all of Amy’s completed fiber projects since June 2018.
A bit about mosaic knitting
Mosaic knitting is a really easy way to do colorwork, particularly when you're knitting in the round. You only use one color at a time, knitting the stitches you want in that color, and slipping the stitches that are supposed to be the other color. After knitting two rounds in a color you switch to the second color, knitting and slipping for two rounds with that color, before going back to the original color. The floats in back are short-they max out at 3 stitches-so it is easier to get an even tension than with other color knitting. Also, the end fabric has more stretch in it, since it doesn't have as many or as long of floats. Thus mosaic knitting lends itself very nicely to socks, which I am taking full advantage of here!
Fancy pictures of all the socks
