I'm A Monkey!
All of your comments from my last post about struggling with my socks helped greatly. A couple in particular stood out to me: Yoshimi said " I can never get my socks over my heel when I only have 3 inches, I always have to wait until I have done the heel" and Rachel said " Okay, that sock yarn was born to be knit into Monkey over 64 stitches." It seems many of you agreed with her, loving the way the stripes were working with this pattern. So I re-cast-on for the Monkeys with 64 stiches, knit on with utter confidence that more pattern repeats and a heel would make it fit and Yoshimi was correct! Perfect fit. Monkies it will be for my sockpal!
Oh, and Debi, I did start your Scale Skin suggestion, and they were looking lovely as well, I may just keep them for myself, as I have 2 pairs worth of the yarn.
Oh, and Debi, I did start your Scale Skin suggestion, and they were looking lovely as well, I may just keep them for myself, as I have 2 pairs worth of the yarn.
Labels: socks
posted by Pumpkinmama at Saturday, June 02, 2007
17 Comments:
Looks like 3rd time is the charm. I LOVE how they're turning out! What yarn are you using btw?
Both socks look fantastic!
Excellent Monkeys!
Love them both.
Both are so cute!
I love your monkey sock, one of the best I've seen so far!!
They both look FABULOUS Erin!! I couldn't pick a favorite from these two either, luckily you get to keep one :)
Oh, they're worth all the stress and effort because they're fabulous. I love the colors and they look great in that pattern (still). I'm glad it worked out.
Oh, gorgeous! I'm delighted that you figured out how to tame the wild Monkey. :-)
I recognize that "scale" pattern. I believe it's the same one that's in the Schiaparelli Slipper from 3 Trails Design. Very nice for variegated yarns. Yours will be lovely! :-) And Gryffindor-y! :-)
Those are both winners. I'm going to check out the scale pattern. I like what it does with handpaints.
That yarn was meant to be Monkeys. I'm glad the 64 stitches worked out. Love 'em!
Hmmm. I'm not sure which I like better.
They look great! Glad it worked out.
Perfect colors for the monkeys!!! What a lucky pal to be the recepient!
Very nice! I love the colors, they're so bright and happy.
perfect monkey!
Dude, that heel? The coolest sock heel I have ever seen. As you know, I loved the way the pattern was looking with that yarn all along, but that rockin' heel elevates it to a whole new level of awesomeness.
The snakeskiin pattern looks great too! That's some seriously magic yarn you have there.
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