I've been meaning for a while to make another pair of my favourite socks. I made this pair in handspun cotton using a pattern in Interweave Knits magazine. I don't have the magazine here, but they'll be easy to copy. Won't they? I vaguely remember how I made them.
My first attempt was a skew whiff disaster! So I logged into
Ravelry and typed 'lace edging' into the pattern search box. It came up with 209 pages of thumbnail sketches of patterns! Luckily I found the answer on the first page, Lace Edged Fern Scarf by Judy Lamb. I ignored the fern part of the pattern and just copied down the lace edging. With 8 rows, it's perfect for my socks.
The pink thread is a provisional cast on. When I've knitted enough for the leg of the sock, I'll take out the pink thread and graft the last row to the first to make a tube. Then pick up stitches at the bottom to knit the foot part of the sock. I hope that will all be straight forward, but if not I'll find a pattern on Ravelry. It's a wonderful resource for knitters and crocheters.
Have you tried a Google Images search for the socks? Upload the URL of the picture into the Images search engine, and with a bit of luck someone may have a link to the issue of the magazine where the pattern is to be found.
ReplyDeleteI've just about given up doing heels with the flap - short rows, as in this design, are so much easier and there are not annoying holes to be dealt with!
Thanks for the tip. I've been wondering whether to do a heel flap or re-remember how to do the heel as in the original.
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