I was carefully looking through all my pictures from this year, and I realized I missed two pairs of socks from this set! The first pair uses the solid grey yarn and the last of the solid bright colors yarn. I did a bit of ribbing, the toes and heels in the grey, and then I used helical knitting to alternate between the grey and the colorful for the main body of the sock. Mostly because I only had a very little of the colorful yarn left, and I didn’t want to waste any of it, but also because I wanted to play around with helical knitting. I really like that helical knitting doesn’t have that jump between rows, and I also find the general notion appealing.
The second pair of socks is from the yarn where I plied the colorful against the grey. This was a new pattern for me, but one I think I’ll try again. It’s subtle, yet gives some interest and texture to the sock, so that it isn’t boring.
I got really lazy about taking good pictures of my work when I wasn’t posting, so I only had a shot of the first cuff in progress for this pair. My mom has these socks in her stash of knitted things (primarily for sale), so I had to ask her to find them and take pictures! Happily she also has a foot model, though she doesn’t store hers on the mantlepiece (I’m told that’s a weird place to store it, but it works for me). I used to have a tough time getting good pictures of my socks, but I’ve been really happy with this plastic foot and its magnetic base that allows it to stand up.
Since she was taking pictures anyway, I had her get some nice ones of one of the other pairs from this set. It turns out there were 7 pairs (!!!) in total from this 1 lb of dyed roving plus some unknown amount of grey.
