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.
