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September 17, 2006
Sunday (guilty) pleasures
Sitting on the flowery sofa, with the French windows open to the September sun, a coffee, raspberries on my (late) morning porridge, wearing special socks, watching Country File, of all things. In my imaginary life, I live in a large farmhouse in one or other of the ‘shires. We keep a few chickens, ducks, two pigs, a pony. A friendly dog.
A few people have asked after the knot pattern used on the sock. Here, for your knitting pleasure, it is.
Worked over multiple of 4 sts.
Kfbf: Knit into front, then back, then front again of next st (2 sts inc’d)
MK: Make knot: K 1, and return this st to L needle. Pick up 2nd and 3rd sts on L needle, and pass over the K st and off the needle. Return K st to R needle. (2 sts dec’d)
Rnd 1: K all sts
Rnd 2: (K 3, Kfbf) across all sts
Rnd 3: (K 3, MK) across all sts
Rnd 4: K all sts
Rnd 5: (K 1, Kfbf, K 2) across all sts
Rnd 6: (K 1, MK, K 2) across all sts
If anything seems wrong, let me know.
Posted by Anna at September 17, 2006 11:54 AM
Comments
Your imaginary life sounds perfectly lovely. Pigs are quite stinky, but maybe not imaginary ones.
Posted by: lorinda at September 17, 2006 12:54 PM
I don't see anything to feel guilty about; I wish I was able right now to while away a Sunday morning thus. I'd not likely be watching the tv, but that show sounds sort of cool.
Posted by: jodi at September 17, 2006 01:35 PM
Yay! Thanks for sharing, Anna. The socks are lovely.
Posted by: Julia at September 17, 2006 02:30 PM
Add some lambs that are always lambs and never sheep and make that a pack of friendly dogs, and we live the same imaginary life.
Posted by: Ashley at September 17, 2006 02:47 PM
I can't wait to use you knotty socky pattern! Thank you, thank you for sharing! You're the best!
Posted by: Melinda at September 17, 2006 04:14 PM
Oh Anna, you won't believe this: I just cast on with some pink yarn and thought I'd come over to check out your knotty socks (to see if I can 'duplicate')- and here's the pattern. Thanks so much for sharing - you read my mind! xx
Posted by: NORA at September 17, 2006 10:16 PM
What a lovely way to spend a Sunday! I always wish for more of them at home to do just such things.
Posted by: Birdsong at September 18, 2006 05:05 AM
Hi Anna,
Thanks! I read on craftster.org that one of your Bridie pattern will be featured in a book. Can you say which book at this point? Or is it too soon? Either congrats! I knew you could do it!
Hugs!
Liz
Posted by: Liz at September 18, 2006 05:36 AM
Oh thank you! I love those socks. I appreciate the pattern
and I agree with someone else above, I'll pass on the "pigs" but the rest of the day dream sounds lovely :-)
Posted by: Teyani at September 18, 2006 03:32 PM
Since it's imaginary, you might as well have a woman who comes in to do the housework and a man who does the mucky stuff with the animals so that you have lots of time to knit and read blogs.
Posted by: B. at September 18, 2006 04:01 PM
Oh dear another potential sock I need that lots LOL thanks the socks are very cute and I do like the sound of your day dream can I come too ;)
Posted by: cairi at September 20, 2006 10:23 AM
I finally decided to start my Sgt. Pepper jacket this evening. I haven't cast on stitch yet, and I'm stuck already. In the list of materials, there's no mention of a 5.5 mm/US #8 needle. Yet, it's the needle size used to cast on, and to do the gauge swatch. Am I missing something? Thank you.
Posted by: Joanne at September 23, 2006 04:45 AM
Thanks for the stitch pattern, and for the wonderful images. I'm going to go close my eyes and think about raspberries and coffee (sounds perfect)!
Posted by: Mary-Heather at September 23, 2006 05:42 AM
When I first saw these socks I thought they were lovely! Thank you so much for sharing your pattern with us. They have just the right amount of patterning for those days when the knitting brain wants more than plain stockinette, but not too much more. :)
Posted by: Annmarie at September 23, 2006 06:21 PM
I have a feeling you might like Blissful Claudie and her Fashion in Fiction posts. Today it's Nancy Mitford.
Posted by: B. at September 27, 2006 08:26 PM