It’s holiday knitting season here, and I’ve been frantically trying to get all the projects done in time, so I have all sorts of projects on the needles right now, and keep failing to remember to take pictures. Particularly since pictures really need a nice sunny day, and those have been in short supply.
The first step in my holiday knitting was to get these socks off the needles! They’re the next installment in the mosaic series, pattern number 40 from Barbara Walker’s mosaic book. I’m told that, if you look at the light space (not the black) you can see llamas, or people doing yoga. I haven’t quite managed to see them, but people have been very insistent about this, so I guess I’ll have to take their word for it?
I decided to go with a reinforced bottom for this pair of socks, so I continued the k1,s1 from the heel all the way down the bottom of the foot. This time I also tried doing it on the bottom of the toe-I’m not quite sure that I like it, but I’m glad I tried it. It makes the toe look more pointed, as the slipped stitches pull the bottom tighter than the top. It seems to fit fine when put on.
The colorful yarn is my prize skein from socks on vacay! It is Knitted Wit’s Unicorn Giggles, and I think it works really well with the solid black opal yarn, which I’ve finally used up! My mum gave me a whole cone of the stuff, and it’s gone! Now I’ll have to use something else for my contrast color. I think the next several pairs of mosaics will be trying to use up a cone of white sock yarn she gave me…