FO: Rainbow Jaywalkers
Pattern: Jaywalkers, by Grumperina
Yarn: The elusive Regia Nation 5399, aka Rainbow. This color is a little hard to find (and now discontinued) so I grabbed two skeins ($8/each, for a total of $16) when I saw them at The Point.
Needles: 0 and 1, Susan Bates
Project started/ended: Started July 3, finished September August 30
Notes and Modifications: Since everyone has knit a pair of these (and many people in this colorway), I’m not sure anyone needs my notes, but here they are!
I cast on for the small/medium size and knit following the instructions for the red and orange stripe with a size 1 needle. Then I switched to a size 0 needle and knit for yellow and green stripe. Then I decreased eight stitches by working one row without the k f/bs, allowing the decreases to be hidden within the pattern. When I got to the purple stripe, I switched back to a size 1 needle (to try and increase the ankle area a bit, even though it’s still tight), and then back to a zero once I had made the heel flap and started turning the heel.
When I got to the toe, I knit a round toe, making six evenly spaced decreases (k2tog) every other row, because I find that the regular toe suggested in the pattern often results in stretched out sides when worn. Just something new I am trying.
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Congrats on your latest F.O.! What are you knitting next? Socks for someone?
Comment left on September 8, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
so cute! i love the crispness of the colors, and the fact that it’s really a true rainbow assortment.
Comment left on September 9, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
“finished September 30″? Fact checker, heal thyself! Groovy socks, though.
Comment left on September 10, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Father Time, I was too busy yelling at the RNC on tv to notice that I had traveled through time, to the future, to finish these socks.
Comment left on September 10, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
All part of my evil plot to confuse and disorient the Left. And it’s working!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
(Though even I have to admit that the socks are beautiful.)
Comment left on September 11, 2008 @ 10:41 am
My man Karl is right! Those socks are powerful enough to knit together the many strands of this great nation of ours in a wonderful Rainbow Coalition:
Such beautiful hose
Will unite friends and foes
Comment left on September 11, 2008 @ 10:46 am
not to be confused with being united by beautiful hos.
Comment left on September 16, 2008 @ 11:25 am