Hi. I’m MacKenzie.
I’ve been helping the Mother of Cats for the entire week getting these socks done. It is a lot of hard work; the kinky yarn from the sock blanks is really hard to get a good chomp on! I’m sure she doesn’t appreciate all that I do. In this shot I was warming up her needles and the sock blank by napping on top of it. Isn’t that nice of me?! Why does she get so snippy with me?
These are the socks that she ripped out a few weeks ago and restarted using fluffy white yarn with rabbit fur in it. Wow. This stuff is really yummy! For some reason she is keeping it closed up in a plastic bag so I can’t play with it after I dragged it upstairs to play “roll the ball” under the dining table. Whatever. She is just horrible about sharing her toys!
I really like these socks, and they are just perfect for napping on whenever she leaves they out. So nice and toasty to sleep on. Just the right size to kick and bite when I’m feeling a little frisky. I think that she should keep the in the kitty toy box with my catnip-stuffed squirrel.
I’m such a good boy. She really should give me these socks.
Can I have some cookies now?
>^..^<
Notes from the Mother of Cats:
These socks are make with handpainted sock blanks by Greenwood Fiberworks. The minute I saw the blanks at a trunk show this fall I knew they had to be these socks. Even the name of the colorway was cool: Paper Roses. The sock pattern is Dave by Rachel Coopey, which is basically a nice vanilla sock. I made the version with afterthought heels to maintain the color sequence down the sock. The fluffy white yarn for the lace cuff is Knit Picks Bare Hare.
I’m really happy with the cuff at the top. I made good notes of what I did and recorded them into the Ravelry project page, but I also got some nice pictures and am thinking of blogging the pattern later in the week.
Happy Halloween everyone!!
These are exceptionally beautiful socks!
Thanks!! I’m so glad I ripped the first attempt as these are just what I hoped for.
Excellent socks! I love the lace edge.
Thanks! They stay up well because of the edge, too.
Your cat looks exactly like my husband’s cat. She lives with his dad now though and we miss her a lot
I’m sorry. He is a handful, but I would also miss him tremendously if I didn’t have him any more. 😦
My friend tried to knit socks once! Not an easy feat! (Or should I say feet?) Your’s look very nice.
Ha! They mess with your head and the needles can be a lot to manage at first, but once you’ve got the hang of them they are kind of mindless TV knitting. They are just wonderful on my feet so I keep making them.
They look gorgeous!
I am so happy with how they came out. They match a sweater I’m also working on.
Oh that will be a cool set!
Does that heel have you cinch up the stitches like for the top of a hat? Or is just decreases? How does it feel? The sparkle in this colorway is like an autumn faery.
The heel had you cinch up the last 6 stitches. I was concerned that there was going to be a lump, so I did several rounds and then carefully wove in the ends. It fits great and I don’t feel any lump at all. The sock is funny looking off, though!
The sparkle made them fun! I was so happy to see the blanks. She also had roving for spinning, but I wasn’t that ambitious. The colors were beautiful.
Love the Lacey top socks!!
Those colours are delicious! I’ve just bought enough wool to make 4 pairs of socks and a tank top, mostly in self-striping wool, which after a 40 year break is a temptation too good to resist!