Unfortunately I had not had the foresight to look up the instructions for toe-up socks and teach myself that method once and for all (next pair, I always promise myself). And so it was my usual top-down socks. I must love the adrenalin of never being confident there'll be enough yarn to complete the second sock. I live on the edge, me.
There was enough yarn, happily. Even more happily, the yarn knitted up in a wholly unexpected carnivalesque manner. I don't know if carnivalesque is a word, but it should be if only to describe these socks.
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I think carnivalesque is a very appropriate word for such happy socks! I can knit both ways but prefer cuff down on dpns (even though I have tried circulars using magic loop and two circulars)!
So you were clowning around as you knitted towards the toes? Nice socks!
They make me smile.
Don't you have lovely toes!
Those are bloody fantastic! I'm currently learning to knit (I crochet) with a view to eventually being able to knit my own knee socks. This may take several years and a LOT of blood pressure medication...
I have great admiration for anyone who can knit a single sock, let alone two, snazzily carnivalesque or otherwise.
They are enormously perky socks! Shame to put shoes on, really...
What wonderful yarn ... turned out some beautiful socks. What was the yarn ... I would love to get some, if you know what and where !! Thanks !!
ooooo... I knitted some socks in a very similar yarn and they truly are carnivalesque, and I even started knitting each sock at a different colour stage in the yarn and my socks turned out with the stripes not matching, just like yours. With much carnivality.
Connie, I'm sorry, the ballband was lost years ago and it was a gift so i don't even know where it was purchased I'm afraid. It was one of the German self patterning yarns ...
serious case of sock envy going on here! cheers Wendy
Oh wow. As a non knitter I can only bow my head in awe. These are amazing socks.
the perfect socks for making that transition to "wears socks with sandals." Well, at least with Chacos or Birks.
I LOVE these socks! So happy! Think I must cast on self-striping socks ASAP!
just lovely!
you've just made me revise my new years resolutions to include "learn how to knit socks". Those are ace.
I love them! The striped turned out really cool.
I am not at all extroverted but I desperately want to be carnivalesque. Especially if it would mean wearing festive socks such as these.
Love the socks!
I feel terrible I still have my first sock languishing on it's own unfinished.
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I love these socks - they are indeed carnivalesque - it's a party on your feet! Would also really like to know what wool you used. I haven't managed to do knee high socks yet, but I can get to mid-calf so far!
Beautiful!....:)
That is the perfect word for them.
The other is: cool!
Hi there, I'm fallen down the internet rabbit hole courtesy of Yarnstorm, and had a pleasant surprise when I saw a pic of these socks, as that yarn is the one that I knitted my very first pair out of several years ago. It's a German brand, Opal, and it's called Mexiko, but sadly is now discontinued. I made loads of mistakes on those first socks, which now make me smile, and they are still worn - that stuff is iron.
Love the blog!
Workin on a pair of fair isle socks now, somehow your colors are much more enticing I feel another pair coming on and havn't finished the first :}
Suse, those socks are undescribably fab. Love em. Wish I could bloody knit... Ax
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