Saturday, July 26, 2008

Too hot for wool (blend) socks

Just finished these this morning...had to turn on the air conditioning and eat a bowl of ice cream just to get the pictures taken ;)



Pattern--7 stitches per inch pattern from Getting Started Knitting Socks

Yarn: Lion Brand Magic Stripes (thanks to Nancy for letting me buy it off her ;))

Started on May 16th, finished July 26th

Best part: I finally learned a better way to pick up stitches...I held off looking into it for so long, decided on the second sock that I was going to see if I couldn't find a tutorial on the internet, found one--and learned the mystery of picking up stitches in about 30 seconds...it makes sooo much more sense and looks better than what I've been doing for the past three years

3 comments:

Kit said...

Those are some hawt socks, har har!

I'd say just about anything calls for a/c and ice cream!

Sonja said...

Ah. Poor you. Had to eat ice cream. Ha ha ha.

I just finished my Hedera! Since they are made out of corn fibre they are actually quite comfortable.

Abbie said...

hehe...well I probably would've eaten the ice cream anyway ;)

I may have to try some different fibers next...(well...maybe after I get through the 4-5 skeins of sock yarn I already have ;) )