The first sock is done, and I have already cast on for the second one.
The remains of the ball with one sock knitted.
NB This is NOT the Club colourway, but the Club yarn is in the same style.
Primavera is a seriously good pattern.
I did 20 rows rib instead of the suggested 15 because it seemed a bit skimpy.
I found only two minor issues.
The first is that my M1R is much tighter than my M1L, so the pattern is not as symmetrical as I have seen in other examples. I will leave it the same for the second sock, but when I knit the next pair - and there will definitely be a "next pair" - I might try a lifted increase on the right and see if it makes it more symmetrical.
This, I hasten to add, is not the pattern, it's my knitting!
The second is that the sock leg is knitted on 66 stitches and then it reduces to 64 for the foot.
This works out as 33 stitches on the pattern section and 31 stitches on the sole. The pattern doesn't tell you to transfer one of these stitches from the top of the foot to the sole before you start the toe decreases, but you do need to do this otherwise the toe won't be the same on the top and the bottom.
If the yarn was knitted in plain stocking stitch, the sole shows the sort of effect created by the dyeing method.
The Sock Club yarn this month was designed with this pattern and other textured patterns in mind. I think there are times where we would like a textured stitch but a solid just doesn't seem interesting enough.
I tried several colour combinations before choosing the one which made it into the parcels. The rest will be going into the shop later today.
This was the runner up contender for the Club, I intended it to look like a snowy garden visited by little birds, Sparrows, Starlings, and perhaps a yellow flash of Siskin.
Before reskeining it looks like this.
Black Forest fruits with greek yogurt?
And this is the same technique but on a different coloured base-dye.
These will be in the shop later today.
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PS. I discovered at the end of the foot-photo-shoot (it's Adam's foot) that he had kept his own black sock on underneath! This actually makes it easier to see this stitches so I might ask him to do the same thing next time too.
