Rainy Day Socks

The Rainy Day Socks are DONE and I’m really pleased with them. The lace stitch pattern is really simple, knits up fast, but looks cute.

The yarn is typical Novita and nothing spectacular, but it compliments the stitch pattern nicely. It also behaved nicely and didn’t pool. Instead, I have these funky ladderstep/lightning-shaped stripes in the sock soles. :)

• On Ravelry: Rainy Day Socks

• Pattern: Rainy Day Socks by Yuliya Sullivan, from March 2007 MagKnits

• Yarn: 207 m/226 yd of Novita Nalle Colori (75% wool / 25% polyamide), colorway #813 (aqua/light blue/denim)

• Needles: 3.5mm 80 cm INOX aluminum circular needle

• Mods: knitted toe-up, anatomically shaped toe using Turkish cast on and asymmetrically placed increases, K2Knits' revisited Widdershins heel

Now I’ll take a week’s pause from sock knitting (although I did swatch a bit lot for my next project) because… Summer of Socks 2007 kicks off June 21st! I already have the first pattern and yarn picked out but I’m gonna have to do some tweaking with the pattern cause apparently my gauge is way off (that’s why the furious swatching).

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