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The first one of my Sockza socks is complete. It took me much longer then necessary to complete her, but she is finished and I am quite pleased with her as a whole. I have cast on for the second sock and am almost done with my first round of cabling. I anticipate this one going much faster now that I have all the measurements done and number of rounds to complete marked down.
As I stated before the turned heel of this sock was not my favorite, but the toe of this one is gorgeous - in my opinion of course. When I first cast on for this sock and had gone a ways in the pattern I thought I may have done something wrong, because I couldn't see the cable coming together like in the picture. So after ripping once I re-did and of course it was as it was before, but now looking in the picture you can really see the cable pop.
I do hope my pal likes these...
'Red' is for my sockapalooza pal and I am quite pleased thus far on the progress. The pattern is 'Uptown Boot' Socks from the Favorite Socks book by Interweave Knits. The yarn is Lorna's Lace in Red Rover. My pal likes jewel tones and red and purple are two of her favorite so I thought this color would fulfill all possibilities - what do you think? After this picture was taken I turned the heel (not my favorite - but it looks ok - Ann Budd's 'Undulating Rib Socks' have a cleaner turned heel I think) and picked up the gusset stitches. I am headed in the right direction and time frame for finishing up for my August 2nd send off. The cable pattern is subtle, but intriguing and I think it flows very nicely with these colors. I do hope my pal will like it.
This may seem like it was easy to achieve, but getting this sucker on was a pain. The last time I did this I broke a needle so I was extra careful this time. Wanted to get an action shot of sorts!
