A 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.
I 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.
Right 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.
Here is the left sock, finished.
When 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!
On my feet, they are a little large and loose around my matchstick ankles. But they are warm and cozy.
I think my next pair will be simple vanilla socks – maybe with stripping yarn for interest.
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?
I saw the movie, and I’m guessing that is where the name is from.