Pattern:
Wendy's Toe-Up, using Barbara Walker's Northern Lights
pattern in the ankle Yarn: Fleece Artist
Sea Wool Method: Handknit Completed: November
14,
2007.
This was my first experience working with Fleece Artist's Sea Wool --
70% Merino, 30% "sea cell". It's lovely stuff: the colours
are very vibrant, the fabric is light stretchy, and yet there is a
distinct warmth in them. It is a little thicker than some sock
yarn, so they are slightly bulky socks. The colour variations are
pleasant and subtle enough to be interesting but not "in your face".
This is a pretty generic toe-up sock construction, but again I played
around by flipping through stitch dictionaries and settling on a
Barbara Walker pattern ("Northern Lights") for the ankle
patterning. This has just enough purling and stitch twisting to
give the ankle a bit of extra stretchiness.
A whole sock. Not clear
in this picture, but the very top of the ankle is done with 6 rows of
pattern of various purls, knits & knit-through-the-back-loops.
Detail of Barbara Walker's
"Northern Lights" pattern on the ankle.
Happy feet!
Fortunately, this skein of
Sea Wool had a friend... I see another pair of Sea Wool socks in
my future!
The yarn is so light-and-yet-warm that I wonder about making a summer
jacket with it, if I could ever find enough skeins of one colourway in
one place.
