And Here Are the Socks

In my last post I wrote about a knitting pattern and today I am showing off the finished socks made from that pattern. Once again I knit a pattern from a book I own but have never used. The book is Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn published in 2008. Although there are many lovely patterns I could not say that all of them specifically highlighted hand dyed yarns.

The pattern I chose - Escher Socks is a simple 2x2 rib pattern with all stitches cabled every six rows. The comments on Ravelry either said it was a stretchy pattern or a tight pattern. Rib would make it very stretchy but cables tighten up a pattern. I’m glad I can cable without a cable needle as it would have driven me crazy to have used a cable needle on these. The yarn was part of the big sale purchase in 2021 but the dyer is no longer dying.

And a couple of photos to show the difference blocking makes.