Finished: Log Cabin Socks

27Jan07

Pattern: Log Cabin Socks by Anne Woodbury, Handknit Holidays
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash, shade 823 (less than 2 full balls)
Needles: US 4 Brittany birch DPNs

Started these around the first of the year and finished them on the thirteenth. I made these for my mother’s birthday, and she says they fit. (They’re pictured on my feet, complete with tiny bits of blue lint.) I definitely like knitting socks with worsted-weight yarn, and there is something very satisfying about the cable pattern that prevented the second sock from getting dull. The only problem I had was operator error: when I got to the toe of the first sock, I had to rip back about twenty-five rows to fix a backwards cable.

I also really like the Cascade 220 Superwash, which seems much softer than its non-superwash counterpart. I made a scarf out of the latter last year that’s too itchy to wear, while I feel like I could actually have this yarn around my neck.

Eventually I’ll make another pair of these for myself, and probably with the same yarn.

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