Hexa-Socks The First! (2024)
Pattern: “Nordwand Socks” by Birgit Grunwald
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock (colour 245)
Method: Handknit, 2.50mm needles
Completed: July 11, 2024.
I was looking for something different to do with striping yarn and socks… I’d bought the pattern a year or so ago, and it seemed like time. I didn’t do the fairisle patterning in the heel area; my thinking was that with the stripey yarn, doing the sock as a hexagon, attached on opposite sides and then with ankle and toe attachments, would create all the visual interest I needed/wanted.
The pattern was pretty straightforward and it kept my interest to knit! I was disappointed to realize that my second sock is clearly smaller than my first sock. It looks like the hexagon part of the second sock is about 2 rows short of the first. I may have misread something/knit something incorrectly, but I don’t see any obvious mistakes. I don’t usually have problems with wildly varying gauge in my knitting, although the gauge in the 2 socks does seem different, measured after the fact (9 rows/inch in the first, 10 rows/inch in the second). I am tempted to blame the thick-and-thin nature of the yarn itself, although I would have thought that would even out over the span of the hexagon. In any case, they are reasonably slouchy socks, and I don’t notice enough of a difference when wearing them to decide I’m going to care :^) . Instead, I’ll cast on for another pair of socks using this method, but with a more even-thickness yarn.
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