AuburnChick's Adventures

If I were Catholic, I might find myself needing to go to confession:

“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned (against my blog).  It’s been three days since my last post, but I had a very good reason.  You see, I was working on a new pair of socks…”

These are called Kai-Mei, and the pattern is from Cookie A’s book, Sock Innovation.

The yarn was a gift from a dear online friend, Susan.  It’s called Socks that Rock, and the color is Jade.

She sent me the yarn for my birthday, and when I saw the label, I was psyched!  I’ve always seen patterns that used this yarn, so to actually get to knit with it…ahhhhh…sweet happiness!

Susan asked if I would be interested in knitting a Cookie A pattern together, and I happily jumped at the chance.  Susan is a wonderful sock knitter, so I thought it would fun.  I figured if we had any problems, we could bounce ideas off of each other.

I began this project on June 8th, and finished around 12:30am on June 16th.  Yeah, I know, but once I got going, I couldn’t seem to stop!  But see, the second sock was the fastest one I’ve ever knit…finished in just two days!!!!

I had to play around with the needle sizes a bit.  I originally started out with 2.5mm, but I freaked a little after trying on the sock after only eight rounds.  It looked way too large.  So, I frogged and started over on size 0 (2.00mm) needles.  I think this was perfect because my knitting is very loose.

So, let’s talk about the pattern.  Cookie’s patterns can seem intimidating, if you’re only looking at the finished product and not reading the pattern line-by-line.  This was a pretty easy one.  It’s true that the panel of lace stitches runs down the side of each foot, but once I understood this construction, I literally flew through those rounds.

Pattern Notes:  I completed 60 rounds of the leg, 20 rounds of the heel flap, and picked up 12 stitches on each side of the heel.  I finished by knitting seven rounds of the lace panel.  I used 115 grams of yarn.

The finished pair is very warm, thanks to a deceptive thick yarn.  These are going to join the other pairs of hand knit socks…perfect for cold winter days.

A shout-out goes to Chicky who endured flying, biting bugs in 90+ heat and humidity with a minimal amount of complaining to take these photos.  She did a great job!

Oh, and Susan, I can’t wait to see your finished pair!!

Filed under: Knitting | Tagged: Cookie A, kai-mei, Knitting, socks, socks that rock |