Sunday, June 14, 2009

A day at the races v.2

At the Races
Pattern:
A day at the Races Socks (
my ravelry project) Same pattern as the hospital socks.
Materials: .9 skein of Austermann Step in colorway 01.

Made for: me
Needle: US1.5 40" Addi Turbo Circular
Start Date: 7 June 2009
Completion Date: 14 June 2009 (Purposely kitchenered on the 14th though knitting was done on the 13th.)
Size: 11m

At the Races
Notes: Honestly not a lot to say about this. I did knit most the second one yesterday at the racetrack. And of course I had a LOT of help with the photo shoot...

At the Races
These are basically the same socks as the ones a few days ago. Except that I added 5 rows to the ribbing and 10 rows to the stocking section. This yarn has a much shorter row gauge so I need more rows to get it the same height. So mostly this post is just for pictures to say ok this one is done.

At the races
I thought it was pretty awesome that the first sock ended at basically at the exact spot as needed to start the second sock to match up the stripes.

At the Races

9 comments:

Dee said...

The socks turned out great. Good job on the stripe matching.

My current socks are Austermann Step also. LOVE that yarn.

Bullwinkle said...

I love it when the stripes match up so well!

Great socks!

Breien in Lansingerland said...

Beautiful socks! Bet you had nice weather at the races ;-)

Knitting Linguist said...

They're gorgeous! I have GOT to try that yarn... :)

Rochelle said...

Beautiful pattern and gorgeous yarn. I'm going to have to add that one to my queue.

Trudy said...

Bea--they're perfect, really! Love the way the stripes turned out, and you know, I always love anything you knit or sew--or bead...or spin...what's next??

LadyDybus said...

These remind me of a safe place or person, they are very vintage looking and I love them!

marycatharine said...

It's really neat that the yarn gave you matching stripes without having to fight to get them.

Knit and Purl Mama said...

Great job on the stripes matching! I'm working on my Habs socks which are self striping and I'm off by like 2 rows on the stripes, but I gave up and didn't care!