Due to an upheaval of my schedule, there isn’t much spinning to report this week, so I bring you yet more socks. This time the socks are for my daughter and I’m planning to wrap them up and pop them under the tree.
I really enjoyed this pattern, and with a slight modification of yarn weight they were a perfect size for Thing 1. She loves purple and pink, so I’m hoping they’ll go over well.
The Knit Picks Essentials Kettle Dyed (Purple) is really quite soft and I’m curious to see how well it’ll hold up. I have a pair of socks in this same yarn that I’ve been using for a year and they are holding up quite well, but my daughter has far fewer socks and is much harder on them. I consider her a good tester for new yarns. If she wears them out before she outgrows them (and this has happened) then I’m not interested in making socks for me or my husband with that yarn. Her socks have far less time input involved.
The details:
Cast on: 19.11.11
Cast off: 22.11.11
Pattern: Xocks
Yarn: Knit Picks Kettle Dyed, Regia Uni 4 ply and Spinning a Yarn Walker Sock
Size: 27, 4.5” leg (to fit a 4 year old)
Needles: 2.25mm
Mods: Used fingering weight yarn instead of aran to achieve a child sized sock, and swapped out to my standard heel and toe for her. Also didn’t do contrasting cuff/heel/toe as my daughter doesn’t like contrasting bits. She’s still telling me that I knit my Tracks socks wrong as they have contrasting toes. Hopefully this’ll save some grief.