I finished my time traveling socks:
These really give me a giggle. I mentioned in a previous post that the colorway was derived from one of the scarves that the fourth Doctor wore. I watched some of the Tom Baker episodes on Netflix while I worked on these. Seemed appropriate.
I'm really impressed with the yarn. It's Knit Picks' Felici fingering weight yarn. It's 75% superwash merino wool and 25% nylon, which is a good combination for socks to make them soft, long-wearing, and stretchy. The yarn has great stitch definition, too. (I used a garter rib pattern.)
As soon as finished them, I started another pair in the same yarn, but a different colorway, and a seed stitch rib:
The colorway is called Mixed Berries. I'm not a fan of pink (especially after this week's news), and the pink in these reminds me of Pepto Bismol (which one might have needed after this week's news). However, it's only one stripe of pink amid four stripes of varying values of purple/lavender, so I can live with it, and it makes me happy to knit on these.
After I get these finished, I think I'll go back to less variegated/stripey yarn because I'm getting tired of doing afterthought heels to preserve the striping sequence. Although clever, it's a fiddley process, and I'd sooner go back to Wendy Johnson's gusset heel since it's easy and doesn't require anything fiddley.
Why do I suddenly have the urge to play a highland reel on the cello?
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