Mad Color has been woven
The Mad Color Weave socks are finished! Well, they’ve been finished for a few weeks now. Way to pull out the old FO’s when there’s nothing else interesting to blog about, kelp!
The shoes match the pinky-peachy base of the sock yarn, but they don’t fit at all with the socks crammed inside. Ouchies!
Pattern: Mad Color Weave
Yarn: Koigu KPPM p335, with a wee bit of Claudia’s Handpainted for the toes.
I’m very pleased with the outcome of this pattern! It’s the perfect thing to show off a yarn with short color repeats like the Koigu. The slipped stitches don’t give you a ton of stretch, so I ended up knitting the 74 stitch size.
I lengthened the leg to 8.5 pattern repeats, which caused me to run out of yarn for sock #1. I had a teeny bit leftover after knitting sock #2, so I evened out the toes and closed them with some matching yarn. I think my yarn issues for sock #1 are due to gauge - the first sock’s leg is noticeably looser than sock #2. This always happens to me when I knit two of something!
I also futzed with the side cables to make them cable in different directions (ahhh, symmetry!), and knit the heel flap a bit shorter than called for in the pattern. The heel flap edit was due to my yarn issues - I was running out of yarn and it seemed a bit long. It turned out to be a mistake, as the extra length is needed for the band heel:
Hmm, I guess I should have cropped out our grill. Focus your attention to the right, please!
I may have purchased the Claudia’s this summer, for a bit of blog header enhancement. Does that count as buying yarn? Man, I just fell off the wagon big time, but that’s for a future post. Gotta milk the knitting content as much as possible!
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Those are beautiful! I love them in variegated yarn. Looks like our toes match! I ran out with about that same amount to go on mine!!!
I love this pattern! Love it. I’m trying really hard to not start another patterned sock, but this is making it impossible.
Beautiful socks!
They’re so pretty! I also kind of like the grill in the background, but that’s just me. :)
I have already expressed my undying love for these socks on Flickr, but it’s worth stating again: I lurve them. Will be knitting some, and planning to run out of yarn at the toes, ASAP.
These are truly lovely! I especially love them with the high heels, but I am a kinky broad, what can I say??
Lovely socks! I love how well the pattern works with variegated yarns. Bummer that the shoes don’t fit, though. Isn’t that always the way? The shoes that are the cutest hurt your feet the most. Unfair.
They’re awesome! I love how they look with the shoes, although I can’t blame you if you don’t actually wear them that way.
Lovely socks! that pattern is on my list of things to knit. If I ever make it out alive from the mountain of papers I’m grading.
Those are so pretty! I love all the colors in the Koigu and the way they look with that pattern. For once, a patterned sock that actually really looks nice with variegated yarns! I’m going to have to try that one out someday.
They’re absolutely stunning!
Wow, pretty socks! Isn’t this the yarn formerly known as “Barfy Koigu”? There are now no traces of barfiness.
Love’em! And they do look great with those shoes. Too bad they’re not meant to be worn together.
They are *gorgeous*! I love how the slipped stitches look like colour flecks in the yarn. And mmmmmm, Koigu. Beautiful!
beautiful socks! Love that colorway.
Very pretty!
These are lovely socks! Very pretty colourway for the pattern.
Oooh! I really like those! They’re gorgeous and just perfect for koigu.
Gosh, I love those socks! I’d never seen that pattern before but it works just beautifully.
(Also, you must have the most fabulous shoe collection known to mankind. Seriously.)
They are such a beautiful colour! Beautiful!
That’s gorgeous!
those are beautimus - great work!
Beautiful! I just got some Koigu that is quite similar in color and was just wondering what pattern could good enough for it… your socks are inspiring!
Lovely!!!
Great work! I love the photo with the cute shoes!
pretty! and perfect for Koigu.
I’d written the pattern off as not stretchy enough for me, but maybe I need to make them as gift socks…
nice socks! Ohhh, nice shoes too. What is it with shoes and the double X chromosome? I’m sure it’s the same way with Chocolate whatever it is.
Love them! Fabulous socks Kelp!!
The socks are gorgeous and I just flat out love those shoes.
Love ‘em! Another pair of socks I really want to make.
I am not a sock knitter, but I really like these! And the shoes are phenomenal
I love those sooo much!! The color and design are both wonderful!
You are a sock machine, love this pair a lot! Koigu never disappoints…
I love that pattern - it shows off that yarn so well!