2 posts tagged “claudia”
Mosaic got in another shipment of Claudia Handpaints in the Hokies colorway shortly after I finished the pair of Hokies socks that I was making for myself. When M. found this out, she requested a pair of Hokie socks for her. I wanted to do something a little different than a basic ribbed sock, so I looked up the instructions for a spiral rib and did a spiral rib on the cuff.
After getting past the cuff of the first sock, I sort of wished that I had stuck with a basic rib. The spiral rib mixed the colors up oddly and without the spiral rib they were actually striping nicely. I asked M. what she thought and she said she was happy with how the cuff looked, so I left it as it was. Beyond the spiral rib cuff, this is just the basic sock pattern written by S. down at the knitting store, adjusted in size to fit a child's size 12-13 foot. I'm actually not terribly happy with how these turned out, but M. seemed very pleased with them, so that is all that matters.
The other project that I've finished up recently but didn't blog about at the time because it was such a small little thing was some to-go cup cozies for the administrative staff in my departmental office for administrative professionals day.
I had enough of the Hokie-ish colored Malabrigo left over to make each of the ladies in the office a cup cozy. Then all of us PhD students chipped in for Starbucks gift cards to go with them. We'll be giving them out tomorrow. Hopefully they like them (and drink coffee or at least tea or hot chocolate). As much as I love the Hokie colors, I think I've about OD'd on knitting with the Hokie colored yarn for this year. I still have three more skeins of the Claudia Hokies sock yarn from the last round, but it will have to hang out in my stash and wait for a while before I knit with it.
I have only gotten about two hours of sleep in the last 36 hours and I have already said a lot about these socks, so I'm only going to say a couple of quick things and then I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures so that you can gaze upon their awesomeness. I ended up moving to size 2 needles and that worked like a charm. They fit and knitting them wasn't nearly as painful as it had been on the 1's. Only thing I wished I would have done differently is to have stayed on the 1's for the ribbing and then moved to the 2's when the pattern started. The ribbing seems a little loose. These were worth every painful minute. They were worth the ripping out and starting over. And they were worth the orange dyed hands. I never would have thought it was possible to fall in love with a pair of socks, but I'm definitely in love with these. And now pictures:
