Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Embossed in green, 235/365


Embossed in green, 235/365, originally uploaded by Sophie_vf.

Embossed leaves socks are apparently in the top 5 of most knitted socks on Ravelry, and now that I've started a pair, I can see why. I know I keep saying that lace and socks just don't make sense (if it's cold enough to wear socks, it's cold enough that you don't want holes in them) but I love knitting lace, and when I finally wound up the skein of Malabrigo Sock I got from my SIL Julie, I really wanted to do something special with it: the yarn is so soft, smooth, and beautiful to touch it begs for a beautiful pattern to match.

However, Mona Schmidt's design is full of quirks, like the stockinette heel with a three-stitch garter edging. I usually just plug the stitch pattern into a standard sock formula, but this time around I thought I'd try knitting it as written, quirks and all - but the stockinette heel is just not going to work for me. It's enormous! It will drive me nuts wearing it. So, off it comes, and I'm going to re-knit with a standard slip stitch heel.

distressingly puffy heel

Tech specs:
yarn: Malabrigo Sock, colorway Solis
pattern: Embossed Socks, from Favorite Socks by Interweave Knits
needles: 2.5mm Inox circulars
started August 23
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2 comments:

Kathleen C. said...

Are you going to have to rip out back to the heel or is there a trick for re-doing just that area?
Lovely, lovely yarn....

9:07 AM
Sophie_vf said...

I did indeed end up ripping it back - I think the only way to do the heel on it's own would be it it were an after-thought heel. But it wasn't so bad -the yarn is so nice, it really didn't feel like a hardship to re-knit.

11:30 AM

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