#1 Superfine sock book!

I just received my copy of Favorite Socks.

Bryony did an excellent saleswomanly job on me - does she get commission I wonder?!

I have to say there is a lot I like about this collection. I didn’t have any of the patterns before, because I only have one copy of Interweave Knits to my name, so it was all fresh and new to me.

There are several patterns for thicker socks – “sportweight” or “worsted” – so I will have to invest in some fatter dpns – shame eh? (“Daisy, daisy, I’m on my way to you!” Tra-la!) So I can play with my new Duets yarn, which arrived practically overnight , all the way from America - amazing!

And there are some interesting man-friendly patterns – I especially like the one that looks like a cable, but is actually just a wide rib with a cannily-twisted stitch winding its way down the columns like a helter skelter. And another that has the word “Undulating” in the title, which reminds me of anaglypta wallpaper – a raised but smooth-surfaced pattern that would bring out the best in a Piece of Beauty yarn , methinks!

The only minor irritation I have with this volume is its use of a bizarre 4-lettered acronym, which I have deduced is some sort of definition of a standard weight / thickness of yarn, as it is followed by grades like “#1 superfine”. Maybe it is a US-thing, but it is new to me and I would much rather see a chart of equivalent yarns somewhere in the book – like the one in “Knitting on the Road”. Even a definition of the term would shut me up! But I can see I am going to be forced to swatch. This could be my new project – making a swatch flick-book!

Still on the second leg of Cinders – progressing well!

Also entering a dressmaking phase – of which more another day!