The Never-ending Little Socks

 

This yarn and I had some disagreements back in 2011 about what kind of needles it should be knit with, what socks it should become. The yarn, of course, was right and so I have knit three socks out of it, because I am nothing if not stubborn like that. The first sock was way too tight and knit on too small a needle, so that the resulting fabric had very little give to it. These socks, they are just right.

The yarn is Toofutsies, lovely but splitty to work with. The pattern is improvised, I think it might be called Gentlemen’s Rib somewhere, can’t remember where I saw the stitch pattern first but I’ve used it a lot. The heel was new to me, Cat Bordhi’s Tomato Heel. Love the feel of it on, although it looks loose in the shaping. Not sure if it will become a go-to heel yet, but still a nice one to learn and add in to the repertoire.

So a summer set of socks for me, quite little and yet two years plus in the making.