celticdragonfly | Sock pattern design

I'm doing it again.

I need knitting for FenCon. (Yes, I know, I'm going with a baby. Nonetheless. I *may* have time for knitting, and I'll be miserable if I don't bring it.)

Cardigan sweater, too big to lug around. Alanna's Christmas stocking, too complex to cast on at a con. So, I'm going to start another sock. Besides, I have new pretty Harmony sock needles.

Now, I have enough of the brown cotton socka that

bkseiver gave me for another short pair. But... there's this pretty multicolor purple stuff I have, that I used some of for Alanna-socks. It's PRETTY. I want to knit with it.

I was going to use the Thuja sock pattern for the brown. Well, the basic stitch pattern, theirs is a heavier weight yarn. The stitch pattern is row 1: K3 P1, row 2, knit. So a seed stitch rib of sorts.

But, eh, a little dull, and on a K3P1 pattern, although it makes a nice sock, you can't easily balance it over the top of the foot.

The Schurch book has what they call garter rib - row 1: k2 p2, row 2: knit. On a k2p2 base, easy to center over the top of the foot. But I dislike the look of garter.

So I'll combine the stitch patterns. Row 1: k3, p1. Row 2: k2, p1, k1. So it'll be a K2, seed stitch 2 rib.

The only downside is that if I picked an established pattern, I could just find it in ravelry, click "cast on", and it goes into my project list. Otherwise I guess I gotta write it up.

Well, there ought to be more wide foot socks in Ravelry anyway, not everybody rewrites them as easily as I do.

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Hi! You commented on my coat on the Yarn Harlot's blog. I'm at xanga.com/lostarts.

I'm sorry, LiveJournal won't let me comment unless I do it anonimously.

Yes, the coat has an open cable down the front with buttons/buttonholes in every other cable. The back has a Celtic knot St. John's cross, and the inset on each side of the skirt has a Celtic knot. It has pockets, and a heart on the left sleeve.

When the knitting was done, I kitchnered the top of the hood together and sewed down the pocket flaps. There was no other sewing. I don't like to sew.

The cross is a Viking symbol for happiness, and the buttons are four-leaf clovers.

There is no pattern. I just made it.

I do write knitting patterns, but they're intended to be knitted with any weight yarn, and this was worked out for a very specific weight.

I have been considering writing more traditional patterns like this one if I think there's enough demand for it.

I'll be putting up photos from the Harlot's visit in the next day or two, so stay tuned.

There are some photos of the coat in progress way back in my blog. I believe it was in January of 05?

Sock pattern design

blue coat on Stephanie's blog