They're done and I am really pleased with them. It was obvious from the word go that these would not result in plain stocking stitch. I can never resist a bit of pattern.
I found the cable pattern somewhere online, the name has something with 'segments' in it. A ribbed cable that you keep twisting outwards.
I can even show off my new sock blockers: blue acryclic shapes to put socks on - for taking photographs and also for drying on.
I like the smoothness of the Sweet Tomato heel by Cat Bordhi that I used here: three gently sloping wedges.
The only thing I am rather worried about is whether these socks will fit over my Dad's heel when he tries to slip them on. They should fit just fine once they're on - but I'm not totally sure that he can get to that point.
You can stretch them quite a bit but the lowest cable twist round is still pretty tight.
It's a learning experience, next time I'll pay attention to that.
While I'm at it: I also started socks - for my dad, as a Christmas present.
I guess I'm blogging about it so that I can't back out of making these for him for Christmas.
This is a bit of a promisary note.
You gotta use every trick in the book to motivate yourself!
On the other hand the red jumper (and no, it's not a Christmas jumper, it's just not) will be finished soon and then I want another project I can quickly pull out and get knitting, round and round and round, while I watch television or something on the Internet.
The plan is to make this plain vanilla socks: just stocking stitch and no pattern. My dad will prefer it, I'm pretty sure of that. He will also appreciate that he'll be able to throw these in the washing machine - I somehow can't see him doing any hand washing. Not even of hand knitted socks. I just don't.
But that means that they're wonderfully quick to make.
And I'm enjoying knitting these!
I haven't worked much with yarn or fabric in red. My favourite colours are pink, royal blue, aqua or turquoise, petrol, purple, black, grey, silver and white. And true red - but it's very difficult to find.
But I suddenly had the urge to get a red yarn to start a jumper with.
This is the result, well I should say the work in progress:
Isn't this just wonderfully colourful? I find it very good for the soul to knit in a colour that works as a pick-me-up, so stimulating, so invigorating. I really feel like this colour provides an energy that is making me feel better in the grey, the darkness and the cold temperatures of November.
I am very glad that I started this project.
