I've been knitting again, and it feels so good. Garter stitch and tweed are some of my favorite things at the moment, but I've also rekindled my love of sock knitting. A few weeks ago, in the elevator on my way into work, I met an artist who was wearing some fabulous socks. They were made to look the same, using the same colors, but the colors were in different places on each sock. The concept fascinated me, so I whipped up a little chart with a realtively simple fair isle pattern, then went searching through the Hub Mills Store sock yarns for 4 suitable colors to match my chart.
It was a more difficult challenge than I had anticipated. The blues and green tones in my chart were just not available, so I had to get a little creative. There was a nice selection of Shibui Sock yarn and I was very unsure of how the 4 colors I choose would look knitted together—especially since 2 of them were multi-colored. Holding the hanks beside each other I could tell that I loved the way they blended and stood out from one another. The light multi had tones of both the blue and orange in it, and the dark multi had some blue tones, so it seemed as though they might work. Hey, it's not like I'd be loosing much if it didn't. I'd have some pretty cool sock yarn to play with in another design.
Needless to say, as you can see above, the color combos worked out beautifully. And I'm really satisfied with how similar and different they are. This pattern is high on my priority list, so as soon as I have the opportunity, this pattern will be available.
