February’s Socks are Finished

 

I did not start any new socks in January as I still had a pair on the needles from December. But as I had a dearth of projects in February, I cast on a pair. I had been tempted to cast on this pattern in January as they fit the theme of Colorwork but held off as that theme would always come up again. But when February’s designers were announced and this pattern was by one of those designers, I knew I had to cast them on.

This pattern also fit my own guidelines as it has been in my favorites for a little while and added bonus that it is a free pattern. And I would like to say that it is a pretty amazing pattern to be given away.

So what is the pattern? It is Film Reel Socks by Alex Parker Mooney. There are five sizes and four different ways of working the short-row heels. Pretty amazing for a free pattern. Looking at the various iterations of this pattern, I decided that it didn’t matter what the contrasting colour was but it was best if it was very tonal. (Although there is one lovely pair where a different colour is used for each section.)

I used the white and orange left over from these socks and the black was left over from these ones. I was worried that I would run out of the black yarn but finished with about 1g left.

The colour pattern was five stitches and I could have stranded the yarn but chose to practice the ladder back jacquard technique as I have used it just once since making this hat. This was an easy pattern to use the technique as I was making extra stitches from a row of black stitches and getting rid of them in a row of black stitches. Before I started I read other resources as well as the hat pattern and it is interesting that some resources say to make all the stitches with a backwards loop whereas the hat pattern said not to do this for all t the stitches. At some point I will have to see what the difference is.

As I said it was easy to use this technique on this particular sock pattern. I used it on the entire sock but now they are finished, I wonder how comfortable the sole of the foot will be.

 

As this is a colorwork pattern the designer suggested going up a needle size. I’m not a fan of that so I worked a size larger than usual but went down a needle size for the foot.

I hope you will agree that they are a lovely pair of socks with the kudos going to the designer and yarn dyer.