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My brother and his family visited prior to me gifting these socks and we had a grand time. The Niece and I played with my dollhouse and enjoyed the hammock.
When you’re about to gift socks that are a little too small for you, reinforcements are needed. Allow me to introduce The Premier Sock Model. I expect there is quite a bit of sock modeling in her future so I’m thrilled that she’s game.
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici
Colorway: Beyond the Wall
Sock Recipe:
CO 64
k1tbl,p1 ribbing for cuff (1 inch)
left cross (1st over 1 st = 2 total), k1, p1 around for 1 round/row
k3,p1 ribbing for leg.
Spacious OMG Heel (verdict: never again)
k3,p1 for the top half of the foot.
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![Lycaena virgaureae Socks](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_0433-300x300.jpg)
Lycaena virgaureae Socks
Another pair of socks is finished and I find myself reflecting. I hadn’t considered that using the scraps from old socks would make me think of the socks these leftovers originated from. Now, my scrappy Lycaena virgaureae socks are like a scrapbook for 6 other pairs of socks. Well, 5 finished pairs of socks and a Texas Stars cowl that I plan to knit. at some point. after I knit all the socks.
Pattern: Lycaena virguareae from The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II
Needles: 2.5mm for the legs
2.25mm for the feet
Yarns: Cascade Yarns Heritage – (red)
Barking Dog Yarns Achilles – Teal Mist
KnitPicks Stroll Tonal – (orange)
KnitPicks Stroll Tonal – Springtime
The Plucky Knitter Plucky Feet – Vignette
Cascade Yarns Heritage – (gold)
![Chrysanthemum socks](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_3855-300x225.jpg)
Chrysanthemum socks from The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet
![Mashad](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG_1521-300x225.jpg)
Mashad from Silk Road Sock
![Slant Socks](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_97341-300x300.jpg)
Slant Socks
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Popped Socks
![Fucus asparagoides from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume III](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_04791-300x300.jpg)
Fucus asparagoides from The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet, Volume III
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While knitting green socks for Hunter Hammersen, there was a moment I fracking hated them. Not because the pattern is poorly written, but because I could NOT for the life of me remember the difference between a make one left and a make one right.
I see a \ on a chart and I immediately think ssk (you can draw an S out of a \). I see a / and immediately k2tog (you can draw a K out of a /, kind of).
I could not, for the life of me, see a y or a flipped y and think anything other than “crap, I have to look up the make ones again”…..and to be clear, I wasn’t having to look it up once a row. I was having to look it up for every. single. make one.
Finally, almost to the heel of the second sock I thought, “this is bat guano, there has to be a way to remember this” and I stopped knitting until I figured out the backwards y looks kind of like a B which tells me to pick up the ladder from the Back and knit through the front. (This is a M1R because the little line is off to the right.)
![How to tell M1L from M1R in charts](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_2085-300x300.jpg)
The y looks like a backwards F so I need to pick up the ladder from the Front and knit through the back. (This is a M1L because the little line is off to the left)
Then, I knit happily ever after.![green socks](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_3343_small2.jpg)
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