Water for elephant socks

P1050355A few of my friends on FB were knitting Water for Elephants, a FREE pattern on Ravelry.  I caught the bug. This is sock yarn that I had used for an unsuccessful shawl. So it’s new life will be socks.IMG_0519I have small feet so knitting a sock on 72 stitches is large for me. But I couldn’t change the pattern and figured that stranded knitting would pull things tighter.  This is a pattern that calls for following the chart every single row.

At one point I was knitting in the car and my granddaughter was using my ipad. Better keep her quiet and happy, so I was trying to follow the first sock – didn’t work too well, but I didn’t take pictures of the messed up part of the sock – it’s on the instep, no one is going to see it.P1050772Right sock, the elephant faces opposite directions, so there are charts and directions for each sock.  Honestly, I think the designer Rose Hiver can start charging for this.IMG_2875Here is the left sock, finished.P1050774When knitting stranded socks, you have to do something on the bottom of the foot, most people just create a color rib, but Rose went all out with this incredible pattern that only the person wearing the sock will see!P1050769On my feet, they are a little large and loose around my matchstick ankles. But they are warm and cozy.P1050763P1050767I think my next pair will be simple vanilla socks – maybe with stripping yarn for interest.

Leah

2 thoughts on “Water for elephant socks”

  1. WOW!!!!! Those are really really beautiful. I guess I’m off to add another pattern to my Ravelry queue 🙂

    I like the name of the pattern too, have you read the book?

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