Tag: Cookie A.

Turkey Tracks: More Socks

Turkey Tracks:  September 18, 2011

More Socks

When I first started making socks, I bought a fair amount of sock yarn at various sales around and about Maine.

So, I’m systematically working away at…making socks.  Which isn’t a hardship because I’m clearly obsessed with making them…

OK, I took a break this summer and made a sweater that I’m sewing together now, so I’m sure you’ll see it here soon.

Anyway, here’s the current pair of socks “in progress.”

But, aren’t they pretty?  They are a Kaffe Fasset yarn that makes the funky colorful designs.

I’m looking forward to making more of Cookie A’s intricate patterns, but…not until I use up the yarn I already have.  Cookie A’s designs wouldn’t show up well with a yarn like this one.

As I write, on the second sock I’m past the heel turn and well into working down the stitches on the gusset.  On to the toe!

Turkey Tracks: Cookie A’s Pomatomus Socks

Turkey Tracks:  April 1, 2011

Cookie A’s Pomatomus Socks

I reconnected with my fried Jane Williams a few months ago.  When we came to Maine, Jane and her family went to London and on to Indonesia.  Jane’s back in Northern Virginia now, and I’m looking forward to a visit with her in April when she comes north to visit her mother.  In London, Jane went to the Royal Needlework school where she learned to be even more awesome fiber arts skills.  While I was learning quilting, she was already well into knitting.

Jane mentioned Cookie A’s work, and I went searching for examples.  I just completed Cookie A’s FAMOUS SOCKS–the very first pattern she put on knitty.com and which thousands of people have made now.  I’ve also bought BOTH her books, and I can’t wait to start another pair of her socks.  Only, most of my current yarn is variegated in nature, and Cookie A’s socks are spectacular in solid yards.  I’ll do what I can…

Let me just tell you that these socks were more than a notch above my current skills.  I tore out the first cuff and leg SEVEN TIMES before I finally “saw” the pattern.  Once that happened though, I was off and running and having a spectacular time–even though Cookie A knits on 4 double-pointed needles and not the 5 I use–which I use because I tend to “ladder” socks at the joins of the needles.  Maybe I got over that with this pair.

Here’s what the look like finished:

When you put them on. the little scales open up into a lacy pattern:

THANK YOU JANE AND COOKIE A!!!

Here’s the pattern and more information.  You can search to see more of Cookie A’s patterns.  The first book has detailed instructions of how to do yarn overs, increase, and the like.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTpomatomus.html