[FO] I cast these socks on in 2013, this week I finished them! 🎉
![[FO] I cast these socks on in 2013, this week I finished them! 🎉](/api/ImgurImages?id=R0a6lQo)
Posted Mar 24, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC
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These are beautiful! Also, they give me hope that my UFO pile may someday shrink.
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These were the longest ones, I'd managed to shift the others from UFO to FO. Now I have only WIPs cast-on this year, which hasn't happened in years! There's always hope. :)
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The pattern is so pretty, I love the cables and the color you chose is beautiful.
Seeing socks like yours makes me wish we had more excuses to walk around without shoes. Maybe that’s corny but I always think that such beautiful work should have more opportunity to be displayed!
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I used to know someone who had clear, plastic doc martens to show off hand knit socks. Not suitable for the weather where I live, but a cool idea.
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Need these omg
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Did you have any gauge issues picking them back up?
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Actually, yes. I previously knit as a thrower/English but now am continental/picker so my gague isn't as tight as it used to be. It actually worked out in my favour as the socks ended up a little looser around the ankle, right where I needed it. :)
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I cast these socks on in mid-2013, according to my Ravelry project page. They've been sitting there, bugging me to finish them. The cables aren't particularly hard, so I have no idea why I didn't finish them sooner!
The pattern is Bob and Weave Socks by Wendy D Johnson, who is my absolute favourite sock pattern designer. I have a wide foot with a decent instep and her combination of a gusset, small number of short-rows before the heel turn, then a slip-stitch heel flap just works perfectly for my feet.
The yarn is some sock yarn I bought in the almost mythical "back room" of the Bendigo Woollen Mills which, if you're unfamiliar, is an excellent source for good-quality hand-knitting yarns at inexpensive prices. They ship overseas, have a wide range of colours, and most of their yarn comes in giant 200g balls. The yarn I used was a random leftover/mill end.
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##### ###### #### PROJECT: J a n u a r y by melliemouse
PATTERN: Bob and Weave Socks by Wendy D. Johnson
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