It's a dog sweater,

.... no it's socks! Two color knitted socks!

Trouble with the mosaic pictures is, that you don't get them to show up as a whole (or I just don't know how to do it right). Anyway, that's why there's this single picture as well.



I don't know what to say much about them. I saw this cute dog sweater and thought the Norwegian pattern would be nice for socks as well. I was itching to do some color work, like never before, the urge was enormous, so I had to act on it. I made the socks up as I went, except of course, the Norwegian pattern. I cast on 72 sts, on 2.5mm DP needles. The yarn I used is Schoeller & Stahl, Fortissima in black, which is good for the heel and toe part, since it has polyamid in it. The other yarn is the gorgeous "Flamingo" merino yarn from Maggie's Dyed in the Wool Handmade shop (just a satisfied customer).

After I was done with the two color knitting, I had to decrease around the ankles (64sts), and decrease more for the foot (60sts.) At first I wanted to make the heel striped, but my son suggested to make it black and knit a flower in it. Well, yeah, what was I thinking? It was easy to get these socks the same length, because it was easier to count the rows between heel and toes. The two color knitting is not perfect by a long shot, but after washing and blocking it evened out quite a bit. I'm most satisfied and motivated to knit more colorwork. For the instep I used some twisted stitches, so that it was not getting too boring for me (the idea came from the Barcelona socks, but I used a different twisted stitch). Right now, I have looked at them too long, I can't stand it any longer, so I'll put them away for a while, before I start using them.

Paeivi (the designer of the lovely Ambitus neck warmer) sent me a picture of her Kyla mittens. You can see a picture here. Thank you, Paeivi!

I can't say it any better than Santa here :

I'm sure I'll be back before the year is over, but this is the last post for the holidays. So, have a wonderful time with your family and loved ones (two legged or four legged of course).