Socktoberfest #10

[which_chick]

So, that sock thing. How's it working out?



I am here:



The socks are going to require a bit more before anything exciting happens. I mean, I think we're at an exciting part, but clearly ya'll are not feeling the delight like I am.

Here's a picture of the socks:



It's not like anyone has posted flat-out disbelief or anything, but the socks exist and they're respectably underway.

Attentive readers will recall that I allowed as how decreases were going to start about 4" down from the top of the sock. I am currently 2.25" down from the top of the sock, so 1.75" to go before the exciting decrease portion of the program picks up. (Maybe there is merit to the metric system -- the existing progress would look more impressive if I used cm.)

Comments

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

And in case anyone wants to know, the handwritten notes say "dark squares grey" and "left hand red". Yes, I do need that sort of thing set forth explicitly.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I love the wrong side of colorwork.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I always thought the wrong-sides of others looked so regular and even. I worried that I would not be able to produce similarly regular and even wrong side effects. Turns out I needn't have worried. It's fine.

The whole level-of-difficulty thing with these socks is somewhat anticlimactic. I honestly thought that they would be harder than they are. They are not hard. They're almost soothing in their happy repeats which have rhythm.

More people should try this instead of sitting there slack-jawed at the few who actually give it a whirl. Everybody who knits could be having this much fun. (I am really starting to sound like I drank the Kool-Aid or whatever, but this is not as hard as it looks and it is fun.)

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

I think you're hallucinating the lack of interest from your readership. Just because we're quiet doesn't mean we're bored :)

Color knitting does produce a nice product, and I like the pretty designs and all, so I am definitely enjoying this and properly appreciative of the obviously tiny stitches above. I'm only not jumping on that bandwagon because my brain is more hooked into form. My textile crafts should have holes or twists or both. Now, I am thinking lately about color in bobbin lace, but that's because it's quite a challenge: you can't just put the colored stitches where you want them! You have to figure out a design where, either by nature or by clever fakery, the colored threads that run all the way through it just happen to go where you want.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I know, right? You're like reading people's horror stories about uneven stitches and holes on the sides, and then you do it and it's like WHEEEE! It's much easier for me to keep track of than texture stitches because it's really easy to see where you are in the chart once you get a couple rows going.