Just finished these socks last night: it’s the Kai-Mei pattern from Cookie A’s book, Sock Innovation. I won’t go on too much about this book because it’s already been discussed and reviewed quite a bit my many knitting bloggers, but suffice it to say that if you like to knit socks and have any aspirations about designing your own patterns, it’s a worthwhile addition to your library.
As you might be able to see from the picture, these socks are a very simple 3×3 rib on the leg. The heel is also quite standard. The fun part comes in on the foot, with the design swooping over from the outside of the foot to the inside. The stitch itself was new to me. Basically it involves yarn overs on several rows, each of which is dropped on the succeeding row, until all of these are picked up and knitted with a purl stitch, creating a really interesting butterfly-ish pattern. Here’s a close-up of the pattern stitch:
I love almost all of the patterns in this book, so don’t be surprised if you see quite a few more blog posts this year about socks I’ve knitted from it.
I’ve got a couple other things on the needles right now, but am not terribly excited about any of them, so I may just go back to doing some spinning. I haven’t done any in a couple of weeks and am starting to miss it.
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