I have learned a very valuable thing about myself: I am not a lace sock-wearing sort of girl. I think lace socks are beautiful, and I don’t think less of women who wear them, but they are not for me. I wish I had known this before<\/i> I knit nearly one complete lace sock and a cuff of a second (different pattern). Below you see the nearly complete lace sock in some Tofutsies on the left and the antidote to the Lace Sock Disaster of ’07 on the right.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: No Tiki glasses were harmed during the making of this blog entry.<\/i><\/p>\n

It was while trying on the Tofutsies Tidal Wave<\/a> sock that I made my awful discovery. “I’ll never, ever wear these socks,” I thought. It was lowering. I hadn’t thought a “tidal wave” lace sock would trip my frou-frou alarm, but it did. The other lace sock (Sundara’s Petals Collection Lenten Rose) is already ripped; it was too big in addition to too lacy. Sigh. <\/p>\n

In addition to this lace mishap, the other Tofutsies sock<\/a> I showed earlier in the month, with the zig-zag twisted stitch pattern, bit the dust. Right twist = no problem. Left twist = royal pain in the butt. I could finish the socks, but I would hate them.<\/p>\n

In desperation, I turned to Nancy Bush’s Rib and Cable Sock from IK (Fall 2005). I had made it last summer to great success<\/a>. I thought it might be fun to play with the rib and cable motif while maintaining the Welsh heel turn (a favorite of mine) and the star toe of three points. <\/p>\n

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The amber Tiki mug really wanted to model the sock-in-progress.<\/i><\/p>\n

So I have a yarn-over mock cable (in Sensational Knitted Socks and BW Vol. 1) with some regular ribbing. The scrumptious yarn is Claudia Handpaints in Walk in the Woods. Anyway, I am very happy so far. So happy that I am thinking of doing a series of variations on this rib and cable theme: creativity within limits. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Happy Knitting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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