Update on Koigu Socks
What you see to the left is my seventeenth – okay, third – attempt at starting my grey Koigu sock. I frogged the 60 stitch first attempt, then a 68 stitch one, then a 72 stitch effort, which also included trying to put in a lace pattern, from Barbara Walker’s stitch dictionary. I thought I would need the extra stitches to incorporate the pulling in of the lace, but as it turns out, the sock is now large enough to cover the Yeti’s foot. I’m a short-row expert by now, and am amazed at my tenacity with this project.
So, a fourth attempt has been started with the other skein, with 64 stitches, and although not photographed here, it seems like this will be the one. The lace pattern isn’t very clear here, but it looks beautiful on the sock.
Consolation: 1) Who knows, after all these false starts I might actually have my own, very first, sock pattern to offer. Watch this space (but don’t hold your breath!). 2) Also, the Koigu holds up very well to repeated frogging. 3) Finally, I have not stabbed myself (or anyone else) with the size 0 needle – yet.
Update: edited some errors.
Can I have a decoder ring for this post?
1. Uh-oh on the size!
2. Yay for the lace pattern!
3. Panting for your pattern (not really, I don’t feel up to tackling socks yet, so you have some time)!
4. I love yarn that stands up to frogging, too.
5. Good thing I am not within stabbing distance
6. I put up a yarn store list as you wanted, check it out some time.
O-ho. Sepoy, you are wanting glossary?
1. frogging: unravelling knitting, the word used because the sound is similar to one frogs make: rippit, rippit, rippit (don’t ask.)
2. Koigu: brand name of the wool being used.
3. short-row: ingenious means of shaping resultant wool fabric.
Oh why bother, all you need to know is that I’m bitching about being lousy at sock knitting. Tis all.
Misfit, thanks for the list! I knit some last night and didn’t frog it so there’s hope for the pattern yet.
Gosh, that slightly variegated grey is still lovely.
Which lace pattern are you using? I’m thinking I’m going to slightly copy you with my Koigu, in that I’m thinking lace, too, but I don’t want to copy you *too* much!
The pattern’s called “double eyelet-rib”, p.46 of Vol. I of Walker’s books. But I don’t know if it (or any lace pattern like it) will show up on the vaiegated Koigu you bought, actually. I chose it cause the solid was looking too, er, solid. But try it out: and if I do write up the pattern sometime, it will be great if someone else uses it to see if it is any good for a second attempt!