July 22, 2008
Yikes!
I'm a day late and way behind - I had jury duty yesterday and everything here is just nuts. I have some pictures but not much time for description. But I'm sure you won't mind.
One Panopticon sock - Upstream architecture, feather and fan leg and i cord bindoff.
This is just a WEE tad snug around the arch, I guess in this yarn I need to go up to a 60 stitch foot circumference. But it will be acceptable, no ripping planned.
It is so funny to me that the same increase pattern works upside down or rightside up - this is an inversion of the Sky architecture, where the increases fan out in a triangle on top of your foot from a point at the anklebone - so, a triangle that widens down from the top over the arch. Upstream is a triangle where the increases fan out in a triangle on top of your foot from a point at the bottom of your arch - totally upside down from Sky. For my money, Sky fits better, but that could just have been my slight mis-guess on the gauge.
Garnet is finished. I took just about all of 7 skeins of Noro Lily. It fits perfectly and I love the fabric I got on size 5s, it isn't going to sag. Sorry about the orange shorts, I wouldn't ordinarily wear it with orange shorts...
That's all gotta run!
Posted by Prudence at July 22, 2008 08:19 AMWowza, Garnet is gorgeous! It fits perfectly. Then again, I've never seen you make anything that didn't fit perfectly. Great job.
Posted by: Melanie on July 22, 2008 06:21 PMGarnet is beautiful!
Posted by: Kerry on July 22, 2008 06:35 PMGarnet is fabulous! I like the sock too.
Posted by: Lin on July 23, 2008 07:46 AMYou look great in that sweater, even with orange shorts! I like how you are doing such an intensive sock "study." It really interests me, although I don't have the book to understand each architecture. What I am most impressed with is how reflective you are about your knitting! You'll be designing socks in no time... :)
Posted by: Joanne on July 23, 2008 05:33 PMLovely work on Garnet! I saw a sample at Amanda's in Poulsbo, WA and immediately bought a copy of Elsebeth Lavold's book that contains Garnet. Thanks for inspiring me!
Posted by: Renate on July 27, 2008 02:50 PMYour Garnet sweater is lovely! Impeccably knit, too.
Posted by: Vicki on July 28, 2008 09:47 AM