(Family is safely back home, and our visit with them was great. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Easter weekend!)
The Nanners, they are done.
The color in this photo is not nearly as good as the last progress shots, but it does show proof that the socks are done!
I did enjoy knitting with them, and would absolutely buy Maizy yarn again. It was periodically splitty, and there seemed to be things I was (sometimes) doing that caused the yarn to partially untwist (but I have no idea what I was doing), but neither of these things made me dislike the yarn. My only concern is to see how well it wears . . . if it doesn’t hold up to use as socks, however, I’d make fingerless mitts out of them, or scarves, or . . . There’s lots of things you can do with sock yarn besides socks.
I liked the sock pattern as well. I’m not fully sold on the heel, but I didn’t have any objections to it besides not liking the way I had to knit it since I was doing both socks at once on a long Magic Loop. (That was annoying.)
My one big regret about this pair of socks is that I didn’t plan the cuff better — once I was almost done with the ribbing, I decided I should have started the rib pattern as I finished the last row of scallops. So, the rib would carry down into the last half-repeat of the pattern. This may be hard to describe, but I know what I mean and I think it would have looked cool. If I knit this sock again (which I might, despite never yet having knit the same pattern twice) I will definitely have to remember to do that.
Filed under: Craft Central, Misc Socks
Love them! I need to hook up my camera and post pictures of my finished Nanners. I have to admit – I took the top portion of the nanner and applied it to my basic toe-up recipe. Because I am apparently lazy and didn’t feel like learning a new pattern. But they turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself! They’re a little messed up, but what can you do? Learning to knit socks two at a time has a fairly steep learning curve!
They look great! Heh, usually I have to knit a pattern once (or get partway into the ribbing and rip it back and change it) to see how I could better integrate pattern and ribbing.
These are great! Really nice texture to that pattern!
Wow… they look nice! We like the colour.
Nicole- Never say never, you may knit them again. They’re really nice.
You know, the socks are cool and all
but damn that view out your window. It’s awesome ^^
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