I have gotten to the spot where the ankle pattern kicks in, there will also be a gusset pattern, but there isn’t enough of it yet to photograph.
Well if you live in the chicago-milwaukee area or will be in that area at the end of June – then you might want to consider taking Universal Sock Construction from Merike Saarniit this summer at Midwest Folk and Fiber. This is the class that I took that started me knitting toe up socks – this class basically will teach you to knit any kind of sock you want, with whatever sock you want.
I know I have mentioned this to a few people in person, but I haven’t gotten around to mentioning this here. Helen, Maria and I had a little run in with insanity last month. There is a really long and fairly amusing story – but the long and short of it is that we are running a KAL (Knit-along.) It is a Lace knit along, not based around a specific pattern, just based around knitting lace for the summer. We got started organizing it a little over a month ago, and already we have a pile of sponsors and prizes [...]
[singlepic=50,320,240,,left] But it should be. I am sure I am knitting the pattern, but it really doesn’t look like the Lovelyness which i have seen in Grumperina’s scarf gallery. It also has a few structural problems, like needing a needle 2 sizes or so larger. So I have decided its a REALLY large swatch (at this point its about 2x the size it is in the picture.) So I am starting again on larger needles and with 20 fewer stitches than is in the original pattern (10 less than the “swatch”.) The yarn is my own hand-dyed yarn, the base [...]