Knitting on the Road: Canada • Canal du Midi • Conwy • Dalarna • Denmark • Friday Harbor • Hiiumaa • Huron Mountain • New England • The Road to Oslo • Santa Fe • Spey Valley • Christmas in Tallinn • Traveler's Stockings • Uinta Cabin • Unst • WhitbyNow that I'm catching up on several other fronts, I can finally report some progress on my second to last project for my Year of Projects: The Road to Oslo boot socks. After much hemming and hawing I decided to double strand some light fingering weight socks yarns for this sock.
As you can see Nancy Bush didn't name her book "Knitting on the Road" without good reason. Other than a picot edge and a small colourwork chart for the cuff, this sock is a very simple vanilla ankle sock worked on big needles in thick yarn. Easy peasy. And perfect for bringing along on our long weekend road trip to our friend's Lake Erie cottage!
The pattern as written is worked in three colours - one main colour, a contrasting colour for the cuff and a second contrasting colour for the colourwork chart. Looking through my stash I didn't find three colours in sufficient quantities that worked together satisfactorily so I elected to work it in two colours instead. I knit the cuff in the usual way, and then wrapped the next stitch, turned the work around, flipped all the knitting inside out and reversed direction to work the foot. It felt weird, but it works - the cuff rolls over correctly with nary a purl stitch needed. Awesome!
It's written as a boot sock, but I think I'll knit them for myself to wear around the house in winter instead of slippers. They're certainly thick enough that I wouldn't want them in shoes. And figuring that most of one sock was knit in just a few days, they should be done in no time!
8 comments:
Sounds like a fun pattern. It looks great in two colors :).
Love the cuff, and you colour choice is really great. They look like snuggly warm socks!
The color work is so pretty! You'll really appreciate that heavy yarn next winter.
I love the cuff! Super cute!
Love it - but I thought you'd had enough of blue projects?
They don't look like big needles and you used light weight yarn; but I think they would work great as slippers, cause to be boot socks they'd have to be really low angle boots?
Very cool, foot on dashboard for your on the road pattern...nice.
The are fantastic! I love the colours you've chosen and I think it looks great with two colours.
Nice traveling project. They will be great as slippers for sure!
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