How could I possibly do Summer of Socks and not knit Wendy Johnson’s Summer 2008 Sock pattern, created specifically for Summer of Socks? Of course, I couldn’t not knit it!
So here’s the first one in progress. Not only is this a very, very stretchy lace pattern, I’m using Paton’s Stretch Socks, which makes it even stretchier!
Like the last pair of socks I posted, I’m magic looping on a 40″ Addi Turbo needle. Except these are toe-up and I’m using size US 0 (2mm). (My first time knitting with anything smaller than US 1!)
I will also fess up to an error in these that I’m leaving as-is. Last night, I was counting up how many pattern repeats I did before beginning the gusset increases (yes, increases… these are toe-up with a flap heel), and I noticed an area where the purl bumps looked a bit thicker than everywhere else. Yup, sure enough, instead of doing a lace row more than an inch back, I did another purl row and completely missed the lace row in that pattern repeat. Since it was more than an inch back, and I barely noticed it even when I was counting, I’m not frogging. This is not a fun pattern to tink because of all the SSKs and YOs in that lace row, and I was too anxious about dropping stitches by pulling out the needles and ripping. (Never mind the fact that I just really didn’t want to work that whole inch-plus of knitting all over again.)
I guess these socks are a little like an Amish quilt with that little mistake intentionally left in there (although, unlike an Amish quilt, it wasn’t intentionally put in there).
