Last week I finally finished my Hedgerow socks. I like them, and they fit quite well (even after a trip through the washer and dryer), but mostly I’m just glad they’re done. I didn’t exactly follow the pattern – I spent so much time working on the socks that I lost the pattern and frequently found myself knitting without the computer nearby, which means I made up parts of it. Specifically, the ribbed pattern does not continue down the heel as written, and has instead been replaced by a slipped-stitch reinforced heel. Also (and I don’t know how I made it to sock #2 without noticing), I got the overall stitch pattern wrong: I totally misread it and thought it was a 2-row repeat instead of 4. Whoops! They don’t get a full writeup here, as I’m sick of thinking about them, but I will say that the KnitPicks Essential is quite nice for being budget yarn, and that I never want to use a sock pattern with so much k/p alternating ever again. So. Slow. Here’s a peek at the results:
Since then I’ve started in on my cabled scarf for Kirsch, which is lovely and soft and a super easy pattern to memorize, as well as my terrace mitts. I’m loving them, but my camera battery has died, so you can’t see my progress on them until it has recharged. The scarf, however, is not so shy:
The color in this shot is 100% wrong, but you get the idea. I can’t wait to finish it so I can start on another sweater!
