The famous socks are done.
One of my absolute favorite parts of the whole process of sock knitting is when you get to the toe part of a top down sock. Because you're reducing the number of stitches every other row or so, it just picks up speed until you're done. The last round of these socks had 16 stitches -- that's a far cry from the 88 I cast on!
I also like how wool is forgiving. In the first sock of the pair, I worked a YO at one point and knit 4 or 5 rounds before I noticed it. I dropped the offending stitch and let it ladder down, and at the time it looked like it would be a tension disaster. I haven't even washed the socks yet, and I can't find the spot. And the second sock - I won't go into all the mistakes I made, but suffice it to say that had I realized how many mistakes I would eventually find, I would have been better off ripping the sock out and starting over from scratch. When you rip out a cable motif and reknit it, you almost invariably have tension problems, because you don't match the tension perfectly; when I reknit the top front center Skabersjö motif on the second sock, the tension was all over the place, but by the time I finished the sock, the tension had evened itself out. When I wash these, I don't expect I'll be able to tell the first sock from the second any longer.
The pattern's going to be available, probably sooner rather than later.... watch this space for more information.
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I knit these socks too from a pattern cw gave me and they are great! They are not as tough as they look, either, but everyone is very impressed with them because they look complicated.
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