The weekend was a washout, not bad, not good. I sort of like a rainy day. It means a project day to me. Sunday morning, as I looked out the window at the spring rain, I remembered that I had saved a skein of sock yarn in my Mountain Spring colorway for myself. The colors fit the view. I needed a pattern, preferrably one with a 4 or 8 stitch repeat. I cast on and completed the picot top without knowing where it would go from there. I tried a number of different stitch patterns, starting with a slip stitch. I knit, I frogged, three times. I tried an old stitch I’d used years ago called "little tent". Nothing worked. The rain continued. I wanted a leaf pattern, spring… something. Then I thought of a pattern I’d seen in IK, the Embossed Leaves by Mona Schmidt. It was just what I was looking for. It was so much fun I got the leg completed while I watched TV in the evening.
Pardon the scanned picture, a dud for sure. It’s a dark, grey afternoon, and I am in a hurry. The dye pot is heating.
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14 responses to “Mountain Spring socks”
What a pretty colorway and just perfect for the sock pattern too!
That’s going to be one gorgeous pair of socks!
The pattern is perfect with the yarn. It was worth the hunt!
Great choice for a great pattern…(love the picot top on them too…)
Perfect yarn for a lovely pattern. I really must make that sock.
Ooohhhh, very nice! I love the colorway. But you know that.
Beautiful socks. I don’t remember the picot edge in the pattern; was that your own touch? I love it.
I contemplated casting on for these last night, but I have to get another pair off the needles first.
I like what the colors are doing. The picot edge broke land-speed records.
It couldn’t have been a total loss – not when you have that beautiful started sock to show for it! Hope you survived the monsoons safely.
This is indeed a perfect match !
Inspiring! maybe I’ll try the same pattern with my skein — I love this yarn!
Linda
So very springy!
So much more like spring than outside. I do love that pattern.
Oh, that colorway…! Sigh. It’s perfect.