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Friday, August 7, 2009

Not Quite Knee High

I had a bunch of wool sock yarn. Can you guess what I decided to knit with it...? YES..SOCKS! Knee high socks to be exact, for those cold days when your feet are freezing but you don't want to put on shoes, or when you go up to the mountains to play in the snow.
I had two skeins of black (one for each sock) and several random skeins of browns, greens and blue. So I doubled up one of the other colors with a black, to get the random stripes you see below. The black all through gives it that speckled look, instead of clean sharp lines between the colors. This worked until I ran out of black. Then I added about an inch of tan ribbing to the top and called it quits. They come to the widest part of my calf, not quite knee high sock, but close enough.
They are finished but for weaving in the ends, of which I have to many because I didn't think, and joined the colors the wrong way. Oh well.

1 comment:

Marika said...

Those are fabulous!