I do love to knit socks, as anyone who knows me can attest. I mostly knit plain ones with self-striping yarns. These are lots of fun in the color department and easy to knit – just go around and around. They are great take-anywhere socks.

But sometimes I like something with a bit more substance to it. So, when I signed up for a swap in the Ankh-Morpork Knitters Guild this past spring, I started looking around for something a little bit more fun to knit. I settled on Twisted Flower, by Cookie A. And I chose the Nightwatch colorway by Dream in Color Smooshy to knit it with.

I found that knitting half asleep, like I do with my plain socks, wasn’t a good idea, and that I did need to concentrate on the charts and the pattern. There were several sessions of frogging and a good amount of tinking, especially on the first sock, but finally they were completed. They came out just like I hoped, and they were fun to knit, too. And I really liked the colorway. I’m going to have to do another pair for me.

It was interesting – completely independently, my swap partner also chose a Cookie A. pattern and Dream in Color Smooshy. Not the same pattern or colorway, but still, with all of the options out there, how cool is that?

 

The finished socks

 

-She Wolf (c) 2008