Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Gentlemen's socks


More finished socks for Xmas
Gentleman's Sock with Lozenge Pattern from Vintage Socks in Jitterbug by Collinette. Not quite enough to do the whole sock so I had an angle via Ravelry send me another ball - not quite matching the toes don't look that bad at all in the slight contrast - and Sock Victim does love them. These were a complete labour of love I started them got beyond the heel and he tried them on - they were 1" to wide - so I frogged and started again. Second go got beyond heel and didn't change the number of heel stitches - so had to frogged the the leg. Third time lucky and we had success.

The second pair under the tree was a Noro alternate end of ball stripe. Toe up construction short row heel - a real winner.

2 comments:

Rose Red said...

Two great pairs of socks! Love the Noro ones and good for you for keeping on with the Colinette ones (not sure if I could cope with froggging twice!)

Carrie said...

Both pairs of socks look truly gorgeous, I love them both to death! He is a lucky man.