The Crafty Bits: Cable Ribbed Socks

In the name of progress I bring you another post! That's 3 in August, an all time high for 2009. To celebrate I'm showing off what's "on the needles" right now. Meet Fawkes...


Another Castle Fiber's yarn (the same spinner/dyer as the yarn for the Oblique Ribbed Socks) that is even more stunning in person. I'm only guessing, but I would say the inspiration for this yarn is the coloration of Fawkes the Phoenix...though Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot could be behind the firey colors too. (Blogging = learning!) Threads of gold, red, lavender, orange, white and rose twine together to recall the colors of a flickering flame.


This is the second pattern I've tried with the yarn and is far more successful than the first. Initially I had tried a Nancy Bush pattern from her traveling sock knitting book, On The Road. Not a good combination, the multi-fleck coloration needed a larger scale pattern or a simple rib. Having done the rib thing, it seemed like a good time to learn how to do cables. The picture above is before I knitted another 3"...and then ripped it out because the second row of cables wasn't right. I've since gotten the leg re-done and am currently gusseting sock #1...knitting is much nicer when things go well.