A Woman's Life In Color

As you can see I am continuing to knit a new pair of socks to replace my aging pair of polworth socks. The polworth socks are beginning to show wear. I have loved them, worn them and now I am beginning to morn their loss. To soften the blow, I am working on this new pair, made of Romney.

I am not following a pattern but rather going with the flow, making it up as I go, and in the end ripping back when I have gone wrong, a sock of trial and error.

I knit the first sock with the ribbed cuff that extends to the foot. After I knit the sock I wasn’t very happy with how the color looks on the cuff. The ribbing takes away from the subtle color change of the hand dyed yarn.






I started the second sock with just an inch of ribbing. I like the look of the second sock better. This sock I had to rip back as I was knitting late into the night at a friend’s home and for got to turn the heel. I knit to the toe and looked at the sock. What could I do? It is funny to knit along and forget an important part of the sock. I thought at first I would just leave it. I could do it. I would ignore the fact that it wasn’t perfect. I can’t do it. I want my new socks to look as uniform as the pair they replace.

I am now a little closer to a new pair of socks.


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