Still moar socks! If you missed the first two installments, here are links for Part 1 and Part 2.
Plain Socks Again
Pattern: Sock Knitting Workshop
Designer: Alysania (yours truly!)
Needles: US 1.5 (2.5mm)
Yarn: Schachenmayr Regia Fluormania in, “7184”
Ravelry Project Link
Who couldn’t just love this colorway? Blue and Orange?! I’m in! Arguably my favorite color of the fluormania color line, these (again) had to be plain socks to show off the color. I really love how the transition from color to color isn’t perfectly clean and even and there’s a little bleed over, almost like a watercolor painting. I’m also pretty thrilled that the socks are almost opposites of each other in how the colors lined up – blue on one toe, orange on the other. They’re just perfect, and again, this is a great workhorse sock yarn and I’m sure they’ll last me for ages.
Hand Dyed Socks
Pattern: Hermione’s Everyday Socks
Designer: Erica Lueder
Needles: US 1.5 (2.5mm)
Yarn: Artsygal Colonial Nylon Blend, hand dyed by me.
Ravelry Project Link
The pattern was really simple so the socks knit up very quickly. There’s enough of a pattern to not be plain old socks, but not so much that the pattern is lost in the color. The yarn was hand dyed by yours truly at a dye day class taught by ArtsyGal. It was the first time I’d dyed yarn, so it was fun experiment and I’m glad I finally knit with the yarn which was dyed in 2008! Oof! So, this is some pretty well aged sock yarn, but thankfully not past its prime. I love how the pooling worked out to look like waves of color instead of striping or spiraling.
Fireball Socks
Pattern: Sock Knitting Workshop
Designer: Alysania (yours truly!)
Needles: US 1.5 (2.5mm)
Yarn: Zitron Trekking Pro Natura, hand dyed by me.
Ravelry Project Link
You’ll forgive me for yet another plain sock since this one is pretty neat, right? I dyed this skein from a blank base myself, measuring how much yarn it takes to knit a row and then mathing it all out so I could get stripes like this. Then it was walking laps around a set of chairs in the kitchen to re-skein the yarn in the right length, dye, reskein again into a smaller skein and FINALLY knit the yarn. They buying/dyeing was done in 2008 (seems that class gave me ideas), and they were finally knit this past year and I’m IN LOVE with them.