I would be the one to knit wool stockings in August. But hey, in the Bay, August isn’t summer, and summer isn’t that hot anyway. And, I absolutely love my stockings.
The purple-dominated multi-color yarn was a Christmas present from my knitting teacher last year. A wool blend, it was soft and fuzzy, purples, pinks and greens rippling through it. I love stockings and was certain that this yarn was perfect for knitting my first self-made pair.
My knitting teacher sent me lots of pattern websites and I searched through dozens of patterns until finding the perfect one. (It was on cattymakingout.com but is no longer there.) A lacey, thigh-high with new techniques I hadn’t tried yet - yarn-overs, knit-two-togethers, slip-knit-passes - and, as it turns out, a great pattern for hiding mistakes.
I started the first stocking at least three times before really getting going. It seems I have to start all my projects three times. But once I got going, I was going. And then I got to the end and had a new problem. These “thigh-high” stockings were obviously designed for someone with much smaller feet and much, much shorter legs. I tripled the foot length and tried on my first stocking. It was barely a knee-high sock.
The pattern was a top-down pattern. I had several inches of ribbing at the top and my yarn was down at the other end where the pattern had ended. I was not starting over a fourth time, not after finishing an entire sock. And I was not settling for knee-highs. So I bound off at the toe and went back to the top.
I picked up all the cast on stitches on my needles and began the lace pattern again, knitting up from the ribbing. When my stocking was a few inches shorter than I wanted it to be, I added a new section of ribbing and bound off. I knit the other stocking the same way. And viola! A beautiful pair of knit stockings.
Next time, I’ll remember to also compensate for the width of my thighs.
Yarn: Lion Brand Yarn Amazing in Violets
3 comments:
you have a viola in your stockings? I do believe you took French- maybe spell check 'corrected'it for you. ;) Voila!
OMG THEY'RE AWESOME!!!!!!!!
oh spellcheck...
Thanks, munchkinhead :)
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