not so much

I'm not crazy about how this yarn is working with the Monkey sock pattern. My husband says that the striping looks like spinach lasagne. This yarn is headed back to the stash. Maybe it wants to be a chevron scarf paired with a complementary dark color?

How many ways can you screw up a Monkey?

At least two, apparently. I had a rainy day urge to cast on a pair of socks with some STR Farmhouse I had marinating in the stash, and decided to see if the Monkey socks are really as much fun as they look. Well, this pattern is my first attempt to actually knit from a chart. It didn't go well.

First, although I noticed, in theory, that the purl and the knit marks on the chart were different, I failed to consistently notice them while knitting. Some rows were purled, some rows were not. Rip. (Only back to the ribbing. Nothing too horrible.) Back to happily knitting the charted section. As I neared the end of the first repeat, I looked at the inside of the sock and thought that it really looked better from the inside. Hm. It was then that I realized that I had mixed up the knit symbol and the purl symbol, so that I was knitting the purls and purling the knits. So I decided to turn it inside out and keep going. We'll see if that works or if that is, in fact, a third way to screw up the Monkeys.

Done!

Another finished pair to show you!


Pattern: I made it up as I went. Top-down, 64 stitches around, afterthought heel.
Yarn: Duet Sock
Needles: Size 2
Time to complete: about a week


This was my first time using an afterthought heel. It was easier than I thought it was going to be, and I used this tutorial even though I was making them top down. I picked up three stitches at the corners of the heels on the second sock. I only picked up one extra stitch at the corners on the first sock, and wound up with some small holes.


I liked working with the yarn, and have a lot of extra left over. I know a few people having babies soon, so I think I'll use the leftovers to make booties.