This is the rest of the yarn I used for the heels, toes and cuffs on my carrot socks. The two different pairs have very different patterns, but they’re the same Correidale sock yarn base from Once Upon a Corgi. This yarn was fun to play with, and I love the names that the dyer came up with for the colors!
Decreases in the diamond purl pattern-blank squares are knit stitches, p’s are purls, p2 stands for purl two stitches together, and grey means that the stitch is no longer there.
The purple socks (colorway: Like my cold dead heart) have more of the purl stitch diamonds on them. I made the diamonds really big on these ones, in contrast to the Vocabulary diamonds ones. I think I like both sizes equally well, but the advantage of the large ones is that I was able to put some decreases into the cuff without completely messing up the pattern. I knew I was short on yarn, so I wanted to cut out stitches wherever possible, hence the desire for decreases.
I’m also pleased with how the toe worked, as I did smaller and smaller diamonds right through the toe part up until it was time to kitchener stitch the last stitches together.
The blue socks (colorway: depths below) are a pattern that’s been nagging me to try since I was working on the socks for my sister. I’ve been wanting to see how these cables would stack next to each other, and this yarn was solid enough to actually see the design.
These are pairs 25 and 26 for this year!