I have a FO and they are just about the wackiest pair of socks I have every knit. My Dark Side Vanilla Socks are done and ready for their recipient!
Pattern: 72 stitch vanilla sock made from a sock snake/tube
Needles: US 0s
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici in Dark Side and Cascade Heritage Sock in Grey
These socks are one full 50 gram skein of the Felici split between two socks and then roughly 25 grams of the Cascade sock. I definitely didn’t split these evenly and one leg ended up longer than the other. You can see that one set of cuff ribbing is about double the other one. So the socks are now equal in total length but not in ribbing. I’m rolling with it.
And as pointed out so very eloquently in the comments of a previous post. The stripes are reversed because I knit toes from both ends of the sock snake so when I split in the middle they became opposites. And you can totally see that because the red and purple stripes are exactly opposite one another in each sock.
These delicious socks are bound for Portland Oregon as a gift for a dear friend whom I plan to visit this fall. I have a quick weekend trip up my sleeve to celebrate my recently acquired status as 35 years old. She is a dear friend and VERY knit worthly. Not to mention she is letting me crash for free in her house, so it’s only fair!
And I still have the other 50 gram sock snake in this color to deal with. I need to decide if they will be socks for me or another quick gift pair for Christmas….decisions decisions…..
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can never have too many knitted socks
I think those socks are awesome and will make anyone smile:)
what is a sock snake/tube? Is that like a sock blank?
Kind of, it’s the same idea as a sock blank. Both use a knitting machine to produce them but a blank is a flat piece of stockinette fabric and a sock snake is a round tube. Like a tiny super long hat. Not sure if that makes any sense. But I can add the finishes to the tube and turn them into baby hats or socks.
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