Lenten Rose Socks

You'd be forgiven for thinking that my blogging has, recently, been somewhat half hearted. I just wish that my yarn buying habits had followed suit, but that has not been the case to put it lightly. Enough of that though, you'll see the yarn as it slowly gets knitted up and some of it just might make an appearance on Ravelry.

I do have one secret project on the needles which I don't want to blog about about until it arrives on its recipient's doorstep. It's for the Rowanette Exchange and it's very pretty and from stash - but not stash that I don't want, mind you. I read my recipient's description of what she wanted and thought 'Oh I have some x to make y.' But when I went to buy some more online or from my LYS it turns out that the colours had been discontinued. So I decided to give up mine. I remember reading somewhere that a true present was something that you regretted giving up whilst being happy to give it to the recipient. This definately qualifies.

In the meantime, I did manage to finish my Sundara Lenten Rose socks in June just before we left for Mauritius.

I really enjoyed knitting these. Sundara's yarn is a pleasure to work with, I really love the twist of the plies, the yarn is very soft and it knits up well. What more can a girl ask for from a skein of sock yarn?

The colour of the yarn is also stunning. It's no wonder that Sundara's yarns are so sought after, she has a wonderful sense of colour, both in her semi solid yarns but also where she combines different colours. As I've said before, there's hardly a colour I don't like but this one is definately one of my favourites, it's called 'Lenten Rose' after the winter flowers. I hummed and haahed about knitting this up because once it's knitted up, I won't have a skein to knit up any more. I know I have a lot of yarn but still I struggle to knit my favourite skeins as once they are knitted, there is no more.

The pattern was the right level of hard to remember and knit rows which meant that I did a lot of the knitting on the bus to and from work. The bus ticket controller even asked me if I'd give him my socks. I declined. The heel was turned in a way that I hadn't done before so that was interesting and there was an interesting stitch where you increased and decreased in the same stitch at the same time which was quite new to me.

Sundara's Lenten Rose Socks
- The pattern: Sundara's Lenten Rose Sock (Ravelry link)

- The yarn: Sundara Sock Yarn in Lenten Rose.

- The needles: 2.5mm Clover Bamboo DPNs.

- The size: One size. They are ever so slightly tight for me at the top, my fault for making them longer than the pattern and not allowing for the fact that my calves are somewhat larger than my ankles. I am hoping they will stretch a bit after a few washes (Kris said they might!)

- Started: March 2008.

- Finished: June 2008.

Posted by Amelia at August 10, 2008 04:33 PM