The picture doesn't show it off particularly well, but in addition to the 5-rib cable running down both sides of the cuff, I ran a 2x2 cable down either side of the instep. When I got to the toe, I had yet another lapse of sanity, and managed to coordinate my decreases so the cable continues and becomes partof the toe shaping.
They took five weeks, which makes them the second-hardest pair of socks I've ever designed and knit. The grand prize winner in the "Nomi Went Nuts While Knitting" competition is this pair of socks:
(it does have a mate, I'm just too lazy to get up and take a picture of them together.)
They were my 2005 Christmas gift to myself (and I seem to recall someone asking if I could do cables that were two-colored...) and like many other small good things, they took nine months to complete. I started them in December 2005, and I finished them in September 2006 as I visited my brother in the hospital.
And what am I doing now? I'm working on a pair of socks in a self-striping yarn that I hand-spun from superwash roving.
They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step...
1 comment:
Dear Naomi,
I love the socks with the two-colour cable. Its the sort of technique that interests me, and I'm hoping to try to learn how to do similar things myself. Well done.
Pete
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