Pattern: Japanese Feather Lace Socks
Yarn: Sundara Socks Yarn in Lenten Rose, 1 skein
Needles: Susan Bates DPNS, size 1
Time to Knit: 1/7/2007 - 2/2/2007
Modifications: I made the foot a little bit smaller for better fit. I also did a traditional eye-of-partridge heel instead of the short-row heel.
This was an easily memorized pattern that worked well with socks. Despite my mods, I think the socks are still a little bit too big. They are certainly still wearable. The yarn came from Sundara's Petals Collection sock club. It was my first installment (I joined the mid-year group) and the yarn is beautiful and a pleasure to work with.
Those are so beautiful!!
Posted by: Carrie | February 17, 2007 at 06:25 PM
Nice job! The socks look great.
Posted by: Oiyi | February 17, 2007 at 08:04 PM
I love your socks! They turned out great!
Question for you -- I'd love to know more about the corks in the background. My husband has been collecting wine corks for years with all good intention of making them into trivets, but he hasn't figured out how to do that part yet. I was wondering if that's what's in the background, and if you made it, how you did it? Thanks!
Posted by: Sam | February 17, 2007 at 08:53 PM
Lovely pattern and I too, love the corks. I have a HUGE basket of them and should glue them to a board. TThanks for sharing the link for the Korknisse. What a perfect way to use up sock yarn leftovers.
Posted by: Patricia | February 17, 2007 at 09:56 PM
I got the corkboard kit at WineEnthusiast.com Beware-- the large board uses up about 300 corks! We had to solicit corks from other people to use fill it up :)
Posted by: Kristy | February 17, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Great job on the socks and also the corkboard kit!
Posted by: tiennie | February 17, 2007 at 11:55 PM
they're awesome! i've always loved that stitch pattern but never thought about using it in socks. it's really nice!
Posted by: jody | February 18, 2007 at 06:13 AM
What a beautiful blog you've got here! And LOVE the socks! I have to admit that I immediately linked to the pattern and bought it. It's an interesting sock... the toe is really cool. And your Sundara yarn worked perfectly with the pattern. Beautiful!
And the corkboard background is super-cool.
PS: Thanks for your comment Chez Philistine! I'm glad to have found your blog!
Posted by: knittingphilistine | February 19, 2007 at 10:19 AM