First thing - I found and corrected an error in the Endless Knot Socks. The mistake was in the decreases for the star toe and is now history :) The mistake, not the star toe…
Second, I finally finished the second sock. I wouldn’t say that I have second sock syndrome exactly, but I have noticed that the second sock usually takes considerably longer to complete than the first one :) What can I tell you, I’m an ADHD knitter. Once I’ve figured it out and executed the design, I’m bored with it. Well, not always, but usually :)
I wrote about the Faun’s Eyes lace stitch pattern last week and I have to tell you - mastering the stitch has in no way lessened my obsession with it. Sunday morning I got up with the image of it in my head and suddenly found myself thinking…
What if I combined this:
I was pretty fired up but I had kind of lost the train of it by Sunday evening :( It bothered me that I couldn’t think of a way to make things fit together suitably.
And then, last night (I’m not actually sure, it could have been this morning by then!) I was looking through this:
Now things begin to fall together! I’ve got lace trees for a forest. I’ve got lace fauns for residents. Walker’s Gingerbread Castle is wonderful, but I bet I can devise something of my own that’s maybe a bit more delicate in construction?
So now my head is teeming with numbers (how many stitches, how many repeats, etc...) and wondering about the mechanics of lace castle construction…
...and whether it needs a moat :)
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Lace castle construction? Ooooh! Can’t wait to see that design process!
about once a year, i come across either a pic or a reference to the gingerbread castle pattern and each time i just promise myself to eventually use it in some way- maybe on the next of the never-ending blankets!
remembering your warnings about the socks needing some adjustments to make them stay up better, i am trying to think of some way to incorporate that wonderful knot pattern into a more ribbed sock for the guys on the list- i love the alternate color styling so much though that i think dana will be wearing them just as your pattern is written in her ‘color of the year’ (which you might remember is purple this year)-
ah, your brain does work so mine can run in neutral- thanks for ideas, patterns, etc-
stay happy-
Opal - You’ll probably see it till you get sick of it :) I only have the vaguest idea of how to handle it and it will require lots of swatching…
But it should be fun!
Barb - The socks wwill stay up - slouchily - even without the ribbing. Their approach to the world is definitely casual. I’m tickled to death that you think the inverse color pair is something Dana might like.
My brain runs a lot - but I wouldn’t always call it working, exactly :)
Yowza! Those socks are awesome! I’d appreciate a pic of them on the recipient’s feet or a description of how they feel on, because I hate, hate, hate the common wedge toe. It rubs the side of my pinkie toe something fierce. I have a pair I just did using Lucy Neatby’s garter stitch toe (I just put a post on my blog about them), and I’m eager to try any other toe than a wedge toe.
Marcy - I may be the wrong one to ask because I don’t have any problems with the wedge toe. I don’t have any problems with this one either and find it quite comfortable.
But you could rotate the sock before you start the decreases so the line doesn’t fall on the sides of the foot. Would that work?
But you could rotate the sock before you start the decreases so the line doesn’t fall on the sides of the foot. Would that work?
Probably. I could just make sure the increases don’t line up. Do them in a different place each time.
I like making my socks from the toe up. I was thinking I could do a star toe by using Emily Ocker’s circular cast on. Hmm, maybe I’ll try that with my next pair.
Robbyn, Am I the only one who finds the Faun’s Eyes pattern disturbing? I see alien faces! Maybe praying mantis faces. (shiver)
Lisa - Nope, you’re not alone :) They remind me of the thestrals in the last Harry Potter film. Not evil, but definitely strange...eerie. As you said, maybe alien?
