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Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
When the Lornas Laces Oddball Shepherd Sport arrived last month, i immediately laid claim to 2 hanks each of my 4 favorite colors (Tuscany, Black Purl, Edgewater, and Huron). Since we hadn't had the sport weight in the store lately, I had forgotten how incredibly soft it is (there is no nylon in it - unlike the sock weight). I knew I was going to knit socks with each of the colors, but wasn't sure which pattern to use (having grown tired of simple stockinette stitch socks). I thumbed through the Lorna's Laces patterns (I was using their yarn, after all!) and decided upon the Spring Blossom pattern - written specifically for their sport weight yarn.
I started knitting later that night only to realize that the 12 row pattern was going to drive me crazy (knitting at night while
watching a movie and drinking a glass of wine was not going to yield flawless socks). For every row, I had to look down at the paper,
find my place in the pattern, and then knit/read 1 stitch at a time. And by the time I had the pattern for that row memorized, I was
already finished with the row! This was going to take forever - there had to be a better way.
I resisted the urge to rip everything out and start over using just stockinette stitch...
Is it just me or does that give you a headache just reading it? Alternatively, here's the chart I made:
Now, doesn't that seem easier to follow (for us visual-types)? I can actually visualize the pattern - i can see that you need to do a
left-slanted decrease before that 3-stitch purl section... and a right-slanted decrease after the purl section.
I can also see that the yarn-overs slowly move towards the center as the rows progress. This is sooo much better for me! What do you think?
Here are some pictures of the finished product:
Posted by Jimmy (Laura) of Jimmy Beans Wool |
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