Sunday, October 26, 2008

Anklet Socks?

My latest FO socks are called "Leaves of Grass Anklet Socks". Of course I don't do anklet socks unless they are my running socks. So I have renamed them "Leaves of Grass Socks". I got the pattern off a free website, but there isn't a picture of them there. I first found them in Ravelry when I was searching the hundreds of socks pattern for SOS08.

You can't see the pattern well in these pictures. I tried to get a good photo, but had little success. If you go to
my Ravlery page there is a pic of when I first started them and the pattern can be seen really well.

Since I was converting the pattern to a full length cuff sock I took the liberty of having to be a little creative. The original pattern has you knitting a 5" rib cuff (which just sounds wrong for them being anklet socks) and the pattern is only on the front of the sock. I knitted a 1.5" 2x2 cuff and had the pattern on both the front and back of the sock. To make this look nice, instead of purling the first and last 5 stitches on the front and back, I knit 3 and purled 2 on both ends. I didn't change the rest of the pattern. I am really happy with the end result.


Pattern:
Leaves of Grass Socks
Yarn: Koigu KPPPM (P53937) (2)
Needles: Knit Picks Fixed Size 1.5
Started: September 16th
Finished: October 20th


6 comments:

  1. i LOVE LOVE LOVE these socks!!!! The color is scrumdalicious...........

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  2. Oh wow, that color is gorgeous! Your socks always look so perfect!

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  3. Freakin' awesome color! Love the mods you made. Really? A 5" cuff on an anklet? Wrong 4 sure!

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  4. Cute socks! The longer socks will be much more useful than the anklets. Though the anklets sound pretty long too!

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  5. Great socks, Deb! Walt Whitman would be proud...

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