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November 20, 2005
One finished
Last week was very busy indeed! Not with knitting, unfortunately, but with work. But I'm going to make up for it this week: I've got the whole week off! I do have lots of Sinterklaas shopping to do. [By the way, I found this very interesting website called St. Nicolas - Disovering the truth about Santa Claus. If you want to know more about the way we celebrate Sinterklaas in the Netherlands, go here.] Knitting will come right after shopping this week.
I finished the first over the knee sock by Cindy Taylor, from Handknit Holidays.
Excuse the crappy picture, this color is really difficult to photograph, especially in artificial light.
I did find a problem in the pattern. There is a mistake in the ankle chart, in row 8. The right cable should start right at the first stitch instead of the second. Also, when you finish the ankle part, your are told to end with row 1, a RS row. So how can you continue the turn heel part with a RS row as well? Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I decided to just do purls instead of knits and vice versa, and it came out allright. If anyone can enlighten me as to what I did wrong, I'd be much obliged.
Of course I tried it on, and I don't think it will stay up, but I like it anyway!
As a little knitting snack, I made an ornament from the same book.
I'm getting in the holiday mood!
Posted by saartje at November 20, 2005 11:19 PM
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yay! this is the first finished object (even if it's 1/2 a pair of socks) from handknit holidays. it's lovely! have you considered sewing a little elastic thread into the top few inches to help them stay up? i think this technique is described in the big book of knitting, if you've seen that.
Posted by: jess at November 21, 2005 2:03 AM
Saartje-
Barbara at Fiberphile is making these stockings also, and she is planning on incorporating elastic as Jess mentioned. Thought you might like to know! http://fiberphile.typepad.com/fiberphile/
The ornament is adorable!
Posted by: Mandy at November 21, 2005 2:19 AM
Hello Saartje,
your socks looks so beautifull. But very difficult to knit, isn`t it? I will try it in another colour. Look this site:
http://www.ewas-sockenwolle.de/ I found it yesterday and a will buy something today. Thanks for your link "Handknit Holidays". I will buy this book by amazon. I hope so!
Have a good christmas time and "Sinterklaas Shopping"
Best wishes, Maartje
Posted by: Maartje at November 22, 2005 8:38 AM
Hello Saartje,
your socks looks so beautiful. But very difficult to knit, isn`t it? I will try these stockings also in another colour. Look this site:
http://www.ewas-sockenwolle.de/ I found it yesterday and I will buy something today. Thanks for your link "Handknit Holidays". I will buy this book by amazon. I hope so!
Have a good christmas time and "Sinterklaas Shopping"
Best wishes, Maartje
Posted by: Maartje at November 22, 2005 8:44 AM
I'm thinking about knitting these myself. I'm still trying to decide on a yarn.
I'm also hosting a knitalong for the book. Would you like to join?
Posted by: Jessica at November 22, 2005 6:27 PM
I'm thinking about knitting these myself. I'm still trying to decide on a yarn.
I'm also hosting a knitalong for the book. Would you like to join?
Posted by: Jessica at November 22, 2005 6:28 PM
