This year I seem to be free of any impediment to my competing in Sock Madness 19. Last year, I was busy with the solo exhibition, which seemed to eat up my time. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
The Warm up socks for this year are the Gansey Adventure Socks. I just picked out some stash yarn to knit with. It wasn't a particulary successful choice, but they are well fitting and a fun colour. What was really interesting about these socks was that many people converted them to fairisle or a mix of fairisle and the original gansey stitches, It was very effective.
The qualifying sock, Conjoined Sock twins, owed it's name to the construction method. A fairly simple looking cable and rib sock turned out to be something a bit more interesting. You started at the toe, knit up, then after a couple of rows of stocking stitch, knit the second sock down, then divided the sock and cast off afterwards.
Before splitting the socks, they looked like this:
And afterwards, like this:
Despite being a fairly simple, but effective pair of socks, they did hold some interest. Obviously, the construction method was novel, but also:
- Interesting
how a little 1x1 twist in the centre of the cables has such impact
- Nice
to revisit the Judy's Magic Loop cast-on
- Nice
to try Judy’s surprisingly stretchy cast-off
Had to adjust enough of my thinking to do the top down after the top up, how did the designer do it?
