fo: fancy socks!

Pattern: Gentlemen's Fancy Socks by Nancy Bush (Knitting Vintage Socks)

Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock (from the lovely Laura!)

Needles: 2.5 and 2.25 DPNs

Comments: I love the result! The colourway is bright and bold, yet incredibly subtle; the pattern was quick and easy without being boring (though I suspect the yarn's appeal had a lot to do with this as well); they are long and comfy and I like them!

Although I have a hearty and long-term respect for the wonders of Noro, I wasn't expecting to like knitting this yarn as much as I did. I was intrigued by the colourway and the slubby thick-thin 'ply', but I'm quite sensitive to knitting with yarns with a higher nylon content (I either get a sort of pseudo-eczema at any point of contact or the yarn feels like it's cutting into me, though I seem to be fine wearing higher-nylon-content yarns) and this weighs in at 30%. HOWEVER the colourway is awesome and I found I was concentrating more on the fabric it was creating than any discomfort I might have been feeling. Interestingly, I did find that the yarn itself seemed to soften somewhat the more I handled it. I have yet to block them, but I plan to add aggressive amounts of conditioner and see what happens.

I think the only mods I made were to leave out the calf shaping (Nancy Bush's calves and mine apparently bear little resemblance; it always looks like I've inserted balloons just above my ankle if I follow her instructions for it), lengthen the leg and substitute a Dutch heel for the one that Nancy Bush suggests. For some reason, as soon as I cast on the Dutch heel tucked itself into my imagined finished product and thus it had to be so.

Comments

[Grace]

Thanks for the great info on Kureyon Sock! I have a skein of it in my stash and just haven't figured out what to do with it yet. Your socks look perfect and I love the colorway!

[katie m.]

Lovely! The pattern and the colors look so great together. Now I'm having copy cat thoughts ...

[Laura]

They look great! I'm glad you enjoyed knitting with the yarn. I've been staring at mine thinking I really ought to knit it up soon.

[Robyn]

I can't believe how fast you knit!