🎄🎄🎄 Day 8 🎄🎄🎄
Some wonderful festive socks to share with you today! These are all gift knits. I used the latest Christmas yarn from West Yorkshire Spinners, Gingerbread', and knitted the gorgeous Gretel pattern designed by Winwick Mum for the colourwork socks and plain vanilla socks using contrast heels and toes. You can find the pattern free to download here. I am pretty much a beginner when it comes to colourwork knitting. I went up a needle size to 2.75mm just on the colourwork sections and also swapped from using Magic Loop to knitting on a very short circular needle on those sections so that I made sure I wasn't carrying the yarn in the floats too tightly. I hope to knit myself a pair now! Have you tried knitting colourwork socks before? If so, please do share any tips! xxx
2 comments:
I adore this pattern Helen and you've made a great job of them. You and Winwick Mum make a great team!
Those are fabulous socks! Gingerbread is a lovely yarn to knit with, isn't it? :) xx
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