Sock Candy…
…or Eye Candy…whatever.
I finished three pairs of socks on Wednesday this week:
Jaywalkers - done from the toe-up with a Turkish cast-on, a Sherman heel and a picot bind-off (which I hate with the fire of a thousand suns. It looks great and all but ohman was it a bitch to pull off) in ArtYarns Ultramerino4. This is like the eleventy-millionth pair of Jaywalkers that I have knit and there is only one thing different about this pair. They fit.
It’s a freaking. miracle.
ETA: The Jaywalkers were knit by hand - not on the CSM (I wish!) and they took me weeks to finish. These were my Lake George knitting. Sorry for any confusion…
These are a lovely design that I threw together on the CSM when I decided that this Cherry Tree Hill in ‘Earth’ deserved better than just a plain old cranked sock. With a picot hem - much easier to do on the machine. Trust me on this.
Last but definitely not least we have a pair of ribbed - YES I SAID RIBBED - socks from the CSM in the lovely ‘Thistle’ colorway from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.
I am so fricken happy that I managed to finally get the ribber to work on the CSM. The ‘mock’ rib just wasn’t doing it for me and damnit, I wanted ribbed socks!
So I decided that Wednesday was the day. I made that ribber my bitch. Heh. ;o)
September 14th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Sometimes, you make me laugh so hard, my nose hurts.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Fabulous and so fast! I’m jealous as all get out.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Wow! I didn’t know it could do that! Lovely.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:39 am
So many feet, so little time.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Nice socks! I still need to make a pair of Jaywalkers for myself, ah someday.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Mmmmmm, yummy candy!!
September 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Wow! I had no idea you could do things like patterns and picot hems on a CSM! So Cool!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
He-he-he… you called that machine your bitch!
Three socks in one day? You are my sock goddess. (I feel soooooo pathetic.)
September 14th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Fun socks! Those will all be nice additions to the sock drawer
September 14th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Color me IMpressed! Honestly! They are lovely! Warm feet for chilly weather! (which reminds me of Rhinebeck. And Artichokes at Rhinebeck!)
September 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Lovely collection of sock FO’s!
September 15th, 2007 at 3:03 am
You’re the Queen of Sock Knitting, that’s for sure - and I adore them all! Beautiful colors too!
September 15th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Wow! Look at all the great socks!
September 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I’m very jealous! Such lovely socks.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am
It’s nice to knit a pair of Jaywalkers that actually fit. Made the ribber your bitch, eh! Too funny and the socks look good.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Your socks are fantabulous!
Oh, how I WISH I had a CSM!
Maybe some day….. Then I’ll pick your brain of that neat ribbing method.
Work, you bitch ribber, work! LOL
September 15th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I’m impressed! I didn’t know that machines could make anything other than an stockingnet stitch. You are the queen of socks. Scritches to the pooches.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Great socks! It’s cool have fast you can make them with the
CSM!
September 16th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
fantastic socks! Glad you showed who is the boss around the place.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:56 am
They all look great! I’m so amazed by the lace on the machine. Boggles the mind!
September 17th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Gorgeous, all six of them! Congrats on getting the pattern to work. I often have such issues with my own patterns.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Thank you for your kind words regarding Sheeba. It means a lot when people care enough to leave a comforting message.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I can NOT believe that you were able to do those on the machine. Amazing! I believe you have gotten the trick to it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Wow! That’s a lot of socks!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I must know–what’s the secret to making the Jaywalkers fit??? Is it your heel modification? I want a pair of these really badly and am beginning to despair of ever knitting one that goes over my heel without a death struggle…
September 18th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
My feet have just informed me that they would like to come live at your house. I have to admit, I really like the middle ones. Very pretty!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Lol. Good for you. Can you come over and make my ribber, my bitch? And you’re making fancy lace socks on the csm too. You are just amazing!
September 19th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Wow. I am amazed. You really did ALL of that on a sock machine? Looks like a good way to burn through some of the sock yarn stash.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Serously, how did you get a pair of Jaywalkers to fit? I tried 3 times and never could then them to fit right on the heel - too narrow (and I thought I had rather narrow feet)? Chelle
September 24th, 2007 at 2:55 am
I know what you mean about the picot edge. Drove me nuts, and haven’t done another since.