Oceans of Tweed

Schrödinger has posted her sock pattern! She provides both cuff-down and toe-up instructions. I think it’s a really nice unisex pattern that works well with tonal or subtly variegated yarns. Her socks are knit in a great Trekking XXL colorway.

I chose to knit these toe-up to maximize the yardage. There were exactly 4 grams left when I bound off, perfect!

The majority of the knitting was completed in a car ride up north and back (~5 hours each way). The tweed pattern was just the right combination of complexity and simplicity. It was very easy to track my place in the repeat visually with quick pauses from my reading.

As is my wont, the spiraling is mirrored on each sock. This is easy to accomplish. Start at Row 1 as instructed, then go upwards in the repeat instead of downwards. (In other words, one sock was as directed, and then the other sock’s spiral was formed by starting at Round 2 and then Rounds 12, 10, 8, and so on.)

These socks are too wide for me, which is a good thing, because the yarn was earmarked for charity socks; if they had fit, I would’ve been tempted to keep them. If there isn’t a local Socks for the Homeless drive this winter, I may donate these to Pine Ridge or something similar. Not least of all, these are my first socks to qualify for Summer of Socks 2007, since they were begun after the knitalong started.