Turkey Tracks: February 26, 2013
Nancy’s Red Socks
My niece Nancy Howser Gardner offered a barter some months back: a pair of hand-knitted red socks for a hand-knitted scarf. She would make the scarf, and I would make the socks.
It actually took me some time to find a nice red yarn. The one I found had some cotton in it, which I thought would be good for the climate in Atlanta, Georgia.
Here are Nancy’s socks a few weeks back. I use five double-pointed needles to make socks, that way, the sock is divided over four needles, which are easier to handle than three needles. I also move stitches around the needles as I go since I have never been able to NOT ladder the work if I keep the same stitches on the same needles.
Nice red, huh?
Here are the finished socks. You can see the little blue slub in the red yarn, like a tweed. The yarn band is next to the socks.
Nan posted this picture on Facebook after the arrived at her home:
I like them with her dark jeans…
The pattern is from Charlene Schurch’s SENSATIONAL KNITTED SOCKS, page 33. This four-stitch pattern is called “garter rib.”
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