Tagged: cabled violets

design / sock

In Which the Pirate Didn’t Like It.

Almost two pattern repeats in, and I wasn’t really happy with that cabled sock design I started last summer and tossed aside in despair. I spent quite some time ignoring it, hoping it would somehow fix itself. (This never works.) It’s all too close together and the pattern isn’t really showing up very well. If it had more room between the cables, more of...

cables / design / sock

In Which the Pirate Begins a New Design.

I’ve had the idea for these cabled socks in my notebook for a while, and with the imminent completion of the Textured Socks, I wanted to start something new. I sketched out the overs and unders, decided which round would be the first one, and had a moment of pride for remembering that cables take up some of the fabric and make the socks...