There was something just not right about those socks. I was getting perfect gauge the pattern was coming out beautifully but it wasn’t right. I knit two full repeats and kept checking over and over. Perfect gauge. Measuring exactly what it should but it seemed too big. I tried it on. It fit but there was no negative ease.
So down a needle size I went. Perfection. Sure I’m not getting the gauge I was supposed to get but the sock fits and it looks great. I’m knitting this sock toe up and it was meant to be knit top down but that’s quite okay. It doesn’t detract from the beautiful pattern at all and I love the symmetry of knitting Dragon’s Breath in a fiery color. I’m about 1.5 repeats in. I have no idea how much sock I’ll get out of a single ball of Jitterbug but that’s the great thing about toe up construction.
I find myself dreaming of the day that I design socks on my own. I don’t know enough yet but one of these days inspiration will hit me. I can’t imagine coming up with anything new, there are just so many great designs out there. However, today at Ewephoria there was some sock yarn marked down 40% and I fell in love with a colorway that had only one skein, 218 yards. I came up with an idea based on a pattern that I’ve been liking but hadn’t found the right yarn for and then Mary came up with the *pow* to make it something even better. Now to see if I can make it work.
