SOCK!!

The whole time I was knitting my sock pal socks (thanks for all your kudos by the way!) I kept thinking about how great the Hot Flash would look with the Lover’s Leap. So I started looking through books and more books until I found this mosaic pattern I thought would work. It’s the Fretwork Pattern from Barbara Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns, p. 82.

The pattern notes say it’s based on the famous Greek Fret and as soon as Georgie saw them he said they were “My Big Fat Greek Socks.” Seriously. He takes all the credit for the name – he LOVES them! He’s got me making socks in greek flag colors for all the little girls at Greek School. Um no. He can’t wait to show them to his mother on Sunday, which is Greek Easter. I’m happy because they remind me of the Red Easter Eggs we have at his parent’s house every year. Everyone takes an egg and you crack the ends against your neighbors’ eggs and the last one with a whole egg (no cracks) wins! (What they win I’m not sure – eternal happiness? Chocolate? Sadly, I’ve never won.)

I’m THRILLED with the way the socks look off the needles, but so so on the foot. The slip stitches at some of the joins are loose and if I like the way the sock ends up, I’ll probably knit another pair and keep this one as the prototype. They’re a bit tight getting them over the heel, but I don’t think I can go up to Size 3 needles. Maybe if I keep the ribbing on 2s and do the body on 3s? Then go back to 2s for the heel and the foot? I’m going to do the heel in red and the toe in red and the foot, well, I have an idea about the foot, but I’ll get to that when I get there.

Today’s a process day. I need to mull over some work stuff and G’s out tonight so I’m going to concentrate on lots of fiber fun. Like SPIN! Finally. I want to move onto my April Project Spectrum Spinning before April actually ends and I plan on trying to get in a whole repeat today on the shawl. Ambitious I know, but if I don’t eat or clean or pay bills or tend to my own personal hygiene, I think I can do it ALL!